So begins the list of sentiments or grievances in stanton s declaration.
Declaration of sentiments in 1848. In the declaration of independence the pronoun he explicitly referred to the tyrannical king george iii. Wright elizabeth cady stanton and mary ann mcclintock met to assemble the agenda for the meeting along with the speeches that would be made. A proposition was made to have it re read by paragraph and after much consideration some changes. 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 event was organized by elizabeth cady stanton lucretia mott mary m clintock martha coffin wright and jane hunt who first began working together in the abolition anti slavery move ment. Declaration of sentiments and resolutions seneca falls 1848 on the morning of the 19th the convention assembled at 11 o clock. 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 1848 women s rights declaration of sentiments proclaimed at seneca falls was a major milestone in the women s rights movement in america.
However here the pronoun he is a form of collective synecdoche a type of figurative speech in which the part represents the whole. 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. Declaration of sentiments 1848 the first women s rights conventions in u s. When elizabeth cady stanton and lucretia mott wrote the declaration of sentiments to call for women s rights for a gathering of women at the seneca falls women s rights convention new york in 1848 they deliberately used the american declaration of independence as a model.
Three days before the convention feminists lucretia mott martha c. The paragraph numbers were not. Following is the text of the seneca falls declaration of sentiments 1848. The declaration of sentiments offered for the acceptance of the convention was then read by e.
Based on the american declaration of independence the sentiments demanded equality with men before the law in education and employment. History oc curred in seneca falls new york in 1848.