It was signed by 68 women and 32 men 100 out of some 300 attendees at the first women s rights convention in seneca falls new york.
Declaration of sentiments point of view. After he escaped from slavery he became an important leader in the abolitionist movement. Frederick douglass fredrick douglass was born as a slave in the talbot county maryland. Three days before the convention feminists lucretia mott martha c. 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.
The declaration of sentiments marked the first formal action of women in the united states to gain civil rights the right to own property the right to education and suffrage the vote. 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. 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. 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.
Ppt declaration of sentiments 1848 powerpoint presentation free to view id. 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 point of view is firsthand because the women who started the seneca falls convention and wrote the declaration of sentiments were feminists who were trying get abolition but were turned away because of their gender so they knew exactly what they were talking about. 203db mgq0o the adobe flash plugin is needed to view this content get the plugin now.