The declaration of sentiments seneca falls conference 1848.
Declaration of sentiments by the seneca falls convention. Seneca falls convention assembly held on july 19 20 1848 at seneca falls new york that launched the woman suffrage movement in the united states. Seneca falls declaration of sentiments. 2 3 held in the wesleyan chapel of the town of seneca falls new york it spanned two days over july 19 20 1848. 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.
Three days before the convention feminists lucretia mott martha c. This feature outlines the context of the seneca falls convention of 1848 which produced the declaration of sentiments a ccss exemplar for grades 11 ccr. Seneca falls convention declaration of sentiments. Declaration of sentiments by elizabeth cady stanton.
At a convention in seneca falls new york in july 1848 a group of 240 people 200 women and 40 men drafted and approved the declaration of sentiments. Seneca falls was the home of elizabeth cady stanton who along with lucretia mott conceived and directed the convention. 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. The feminist political movement began in the nineteenth century with the call for female suffrage.
This document made a bold argument modeled on the language and logic of the declaration of independence that american women should be given civil and political rights equal to those of american men including the right to vote. Held in seneca falls new york the convention is now known as the seneca falls convention the principal author of the declaration was elizabeth cady stanton. The seneca falls convention was the first women s rights convention. The declaration of the seneca falls convention using the model of the us declaration of independence forthrightly demanded that the rights of women as right bearing individuals be acknowledged and respectd by society.
Elizabeth cady stanton and lucretia mott wrote the declaration of sentiments for the seneca falls women s rights convention 1848 in upstate new york deliberately modeling it on the 1776 declaration of independence. It was signed by sixty eight women and thirty two men.