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.
Declaration of sentiments book. I followed everything that she wrote and went back to the original document to check for the similarities. 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. Her declaration of sentiments was absolutely hilarious i mean the idea of having to write one not what she wrote. Declaration of sentiments when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one portion of the.
So begins the list of sentiments or grievances in stanton s declaration. Proceedings and declaration of sentiments. However here the pronoun he is a form of collective synecdoche a type of figurative speech in which the part represents the whole. This declaration of sentiments was written and adopted at the first women s rights convention in the united states held in seneca falls new york the 19th and 20th of july 1848.
In the declaration of independence the pronoun he explicitly referred to the tyrannical king george iii. Book review elizabeth cady stanton s works were also brilliant.