When elizabeth cady stanton wrote the declaration of sentiments she used the declaration of independence as a framework.
Declaration of sentiments effects. On day two the women presented a declaration of sentiments and grievances the beginning of this declaration contains the same words which were used in the declaration of. The declaration of sentiments had great impact on the social and political structure of the country. In the declaration of independence the pronoun he explicitly referred to the tyrannical king george iii. It is a well known fact that the way they are written possess an almost identical pattern.
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. Women stood up and started to fight for their own rights and freedom. The conference took place in seneca falls new york in july 1848 and was organized by stanton and lucretia mott after mott was not allowed to speak at a. Three days before the convention feminists lucretia mott martha c.
The declaration of sentiments was read by elizabeth cady stanton and signed by 32 men and 68 women during the first ever women s rights convention in america that was organized by women. 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. 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. It was the beginning of the suffrage movement in the united states.
So begins the list of sentiments or grievances in stanton s declaration. Declaration of sentiments a turning point of the women s rights movements. 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 of sentiments had a huge impact on the social and political structure of society.
It is no exaggeration to say she doubtlessly follows the style and wording of the declaration of independence closely. 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.