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The declaration of sentiments begins by asserting the equality of all men and women and reiterates that both genders are endowed with unalienable rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Declaration of sentiments full text. 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. A proposition was made to have it re read by paragraph and after much consideration some changes. Elizabeth cady stanton voiced the claims of the antebellum era conventioneers at seneca falls by adopting the same language of colonial revolutionaries decades prior. In the declaration of independence the pronoun he explicitly referred to the tyrannical king george iii.
Declaration of sentiments and resolutions seneca falls 1848 on the morning of the 19th the convention assembled at 11 o clock. Elizabeth cady stanton the declaration of sentiments from the seneca falls women s convention 1848 the declaration of sentiments. By elizabeth cady stanton. 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.
So begins the list of sentiments or grievances in stanton s declaration. Thomas jefferson s declaration of independence was her template. The declaration of sentiments offered for the acceptance of the convention was then read by e. However here the pronoun he is a form of collective synecdoche a type of figurative speech in which the part represents the whole.
The text then lists 16 facts illustrating the extent of this oppression including the. 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. Declaration of sentiments elizabeth cady stanton on july 19 1848 the first all women day of the convention stanton read her declaration which she modeled off the declaration of independence before a crowd of two hundred women. 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 set the stage for their convening. The declaration was also met with strong criticism and anger. The declaration was delivered at the seneca falls convention new york july 19 20 1848. It argues that women are oppressed by the government and the patriarchal society of which they are a part.
Full text transcript of elizabeth cady stanton s declaration of sentiments as published in the history of woman suffrage by stanton et al.