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She presented at the first women s rights convention.
Declaration of sentiments. Declaration of sentiments when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied but one to which the laws of nature and of nature s god entitle them a decent respect to the opinions of mankind. Women s inferior legal status including lack of suffrage rights which was true except both for some local elections and in new jersey between 1790 and 1807. The declaration of sentiments also known as the declaration of rights and sentiments is a document signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men 100 out of some 300 attendees at the first women s rights convention to be organized by women. Most prominent among the critiques stanton advanced were.
Elizabeth cady stanton drafted the declaration of sentiments for women s rights suffrage at wesleyan chapel at seneca falls new york on july 19 1848. Three days before the convention feminists lucretia mott martha c. Wright elizabeth cady stanton and mary ann mcclintock met to assemble the agenda for the meeting along with the speeches that would be made. The declaration is one of the roots of the suffrage movement that ultimately resulted the 19th amendment being added to the constitution.
The declaration of sentiments was read by elizabeth cady stanton then each paragraph was read discussed and sometimes slightly modified during the first day of the convention when only women had been invited and the few men present anyway were asked to be silent. Declaration of sentiments document outlining the rights that american women should be entitled to as citizens that emerged from the seneca falls convention in new york in july 1848. The public release of the declaration of sentiments triggered dialog among many women also interested in equal rights and womens suffrage. The declaration was also met with strong criticism and anger.