
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 speech. Seneca falls convention july 19 1848. Frederick douglass fredrick douglass was born as a slave in the talbot county maryland. 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. After he escaped from slavery he became an important leader in the abolitionist movement.
Our roll of honor signatures to the declaration of sentiments set forth by the first woman s rights convention held at seneca falls ny july 19 20 1848 with emendations by elizabeth cady stanton s daughter harriot stanton blatch 1856 1940 u s. In the declaration of sentiments elizabeth cady stanton wrote about women s rights to vote. 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. Declaration of sentiments and resolutions by elizabeth cady stanton american women s rights pioneer.
Three days before the convention feminists lucretia mott martha c. Go here for more about elizabeth cady stanton. However here the pronoun he is a form of collective synecdoche a type of figurative speech in which the part represents the whole. 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.
Wright elizabeth cady stanton and mary ann mcclintock met to assemble the agenda for the meeting along with the speeches that would be made. Go here for more about elizabeth cady stanton s declaration of sentiments speech. Just as the declaration of independence asserted the right to change or throw off unjust government so does the declaration of sentiments.