Declaration Of Sentiments List

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Declaration of sentiments list. Composed by the abolitionist elizabeth cady stanton it deliberately echoes the declaration of independence by casting women in the role. 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. So begins the list of sentiments or grievances in stanton s declaration. Lucretia coffin mott is on top of the list this mahogany tea table was used on july 16 1848 to compose much of the first draft of the declaration of sentiments.

A vocabulary list featuring the declaration of sentiments 1848. The declaration of sentiments was drafted at the seneca falls convention in 1848 by elizabeth cady stanton. Based on the american declaration of independence the sentiments demanded equality with men before the law in education and employment. 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.

Women s grievances against men women s rights convention. 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 and resolutions. 1 declaration of sentiments.

Part of a series on feminism history social feminist history history of feminism women only space women s history american british canadian german timelines women s. The declaration of sentiments and resolutions was drafted by elizabeth cady stanton for the women s rights convention at seneca falls new york in 1848. The paragraph numbers were not. In the declaration of independence the pronoun he explicitly referred to the tyrannical king george iii.

3 4 july 19 1848 5 6 when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one portion of the 7 family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that. Signers of the declaration of sentiments at seneca falls in order. However here the pronoun he is a form of collective synecdoche a type of figurative speech in which the part represents the whole. Of the 300 attendees at the convention 100 total people signed the declaration 68 women and 32 men.

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 nature s god entitle them a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the. Following is the text of the seneca falls declaration of sentiments 1848. 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.