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.
Declaration of sentiments of 1848. The declaration of sentiments offered for the acceptance of the convention was then read by e. 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. In the declaration of independence the pronoun he explicitly referred to the tyrannical king george iii. So begins the list of sentiments or grievances in stanton s declaration.
By elizabeth cady stanton. The 1848 women s rights declaration of sentiments proclaimed at seneca falls was a major milestone in the women s rights movement in america. Elizabeth cady stanton 1815 1902. In 1848 a historic assembly of women gathered in seneca falls new york the home of elizabeth cady stanton.
The paragraph numbers were not. A proposition was made to have it re read by paragraph and after much consideration some changes. Declaration of sentiments and resolutions seneca falls 1848 on the morning of the 19th the convention assembled at 11 o clock. History oc curred in seneca falls new york in 1848.
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 report of the woman s rights convention held at seneca falls new york july 19 and 20 1848 printed by john dick. Wright elizabeth cady stanton and mary ann mcclintock met to assemble the agenda for the meeting along with the speeches that would be made. 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.
Following is the text of the seneca falls declaration of sentiments 1848. Declaration of sentiments 1848 the first women s rights conventions in u s. However here the pronoun he is a form of collective synecdoche a type of figurative speech in which the part represents the whole. Stanton organized the seneca falls convention with lucretia mott who like her had been excluded from the world anti slavery convention in london eight years earlier.
Three days before the convention feminists lucretia mott martha c. Based on the american declaration of independence the sentiments demanded equality with men before the law in education and employment. 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.