The 1848 women s rights declaration of sentiments proclaimed at seneca falls was a major milestone in the women s rights movement in america.
Declaration of sentiments seneca falls. Wright elizabeth cady stanton and mary ann mcclintock met to assemble the agenda for the meeting along with the speeches that would be made. 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. Between 1848 and 1862 the participants of the seneca falls convention used the declaration of sentiments to employ agents circulate tracts petition the state and national legislatures and. This document made a bold argument modeled on the language and logic of the declaration of independence that american women should be given civil and political rights equal to those of american men including the right to vote.
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. 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. At a convention in seneca falls new york in july 1848 a group of 240 people 200 women and 40 men drafted and approved the declaration of sentiments. The declaration of sentiments offered for the acceptance of the convention was then read by e.
Declaration of sentiments and resolutions seneca falls 1848 on the morning of the 19th the convention assembled at 11 o clock. Three days before the convention feminists lucretia mott martha c. 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 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.
Seneca falls declaration of sentiments. A proposition was made to have it re read by paragraph and after much consideration some changes. The feminist political movement began in the nineteenth century with the call for female suffrage.