The declaration of sentiments set the stage for their convening.
Declaration of sentiments library of congress. Elizabeth cady stanton voiced the claims of the antebellum era conventioneers at seneca falls by adopting the same language of colonial revolutionaries decades prior. The paragraph numbers were not. Manuscript document with emendations by thomas jefferson. 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.
Thomas jefferson papers manuscript division library of congress 109 00 02 digital id us0109p2 us0109 us0109 01. 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 requires that they should declare the causes that. Researchers should watch for modern documents for example foreign works and works published in the united states less than 95 years ago or unpublished if the author died less than 70 years ago that may be copyrighted. On july 20 1848 in seneca falls new york the first woman s rights convention approved a declaration of sentiments which had been drafted by elizabeth cady stanton and modeled after the declaration of independence in its commitment to secure women s rights.
Thomas jefferson s declaration of independence was her template. This call was published in the seneca county courier july 14 1848 without any signatures. Declaration of the rights of man ante july 1789. Proceedings and declaration of sentiments library of congress.
Wright mary ann mcclintock and jane c. 1 first and closing paragraphs of mrs. Following is the text of the seneca falls declaration of sentiments 1848. They ratified it by a large majority committing themselves to over seventy years of lobbying petitioning and marching for the right to vote.
One of the defining documents of the women s rights movement in the united states is the declaration of sentiments and resolutions principally authored by elizabeth cady stanton the declaration was signed by one hundred attendees sixty eight women and thirty two men at the seneca falls convention in seneca falls ny in july 1848. The library of congress is not aware of any copyright restrictions in the national women suffrage association collection. Sixty eight women and 32 men signed the declaration of sentiments in 1848.