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Then and now by representation2020 on july 20 2017 today is a day to celebrate exactly 169 years ago the seneca falls convention changed the course of women s history.
Declaration of sentiments inspired by. The declaration of sentiments was a clarion call in celebration of women s worthiness naming their right not be subjugated. 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 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 declaration of sentiments and the resolutions adopted by the seneca falls convention is hailed for its groundbreaking demands like insisting that men be held to the same moral standards as.
Most prominent among the critiques stanton advanced were. The declaration of sentiments. Women s inferior legal status including lack of suffrage rights which was true except both for some local elections and in new jersey between 1790 and 1807. 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.
Three days before the convention feminists lucretia mott martha c. The declaration of sentiments a document inspired by the declaration of independence that demands not only the right for women to vote but complete gender equality in the matters of politics education family religion morals and work. We hold these truths to be self evident. That all men and.
The declaration of sentiments. Men s history of repeated injuries and usurpations in order to an absolute tyranny over women is asserted and the intention to lay out the evidence is also included.