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Some women responded in opposition; they believed that it was a time of suffrage and social change. Elizabeth Cady Stanton proclaimed that “NOW’s THE HOUR- Not the negro’s hour” alone, but everybody’s hour” as a response to Douglass’s assertion in the precedence of black suffrage. Her perspective as a white woman does not allow for empathy for the black race. Although she has championed for their cause, she cannot be as passionate nor can it be as relevant to her as Frederick Douglass. Stanton’s anger at the 15th amendment is understandable, considering the support she had for the abolition movement. Important to note is Stanton’s limited ability to understand or sympathize with either black men or women. She fought for basic human rights but mainly focused on women like her, the ones she could identify with. Some of her comments were even racist including 'We educated, virtuous white women are more worthy of the vote.' This is not equality but arrogance. Her words does not distinguish herself from the white men who withheld the vote from all other groups. In one sense she is no better than they are about considering others viewpoints. African American women would not react well to Stanton’s arrogant attitude towards suffrage. She has alienated them. …show more content…

Stanton fears black men receiving suffrage and assumes that they will oppress white women like herself saying, “What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?” Her views of equal rights for white, middle-class women divides the movement towards equality for

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4. Both Abigail Adams and Stanton are making it understood that change for women is long overdue. Both selections have a specific highlight on the “tyrannical” way men have ran their society and with no “impunity”. Stanton goes into great length with this among with many of instances marking the patriarchy, with Abigail Adams sticking mainly to addressing the men who have already recognized this discrimination and making an importune call for the change in women’s rights.

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But “Stanton” put forward the “Declaration of Sentiments document in the American woman’s suffrage movement” to put forth unity between both sexes in allowing “women to

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However, when thought of, most people remember her contributions to the women’s rights movement. She, and other feminists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, began to realize that there were numerous similarities between slaves and women. Both were fighting to get away from the male-dominated culture and beliefs. In 1848, these women began a convention in Seneca Falls, regarding women’s rights(Brinkley 330). They believed that women should be able to vote, basing their argument on the clause “all men and women are created equal”.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Shulamith Firestone Elizabeth Cady Stanton, an abolitionist and most importantly, the leading suffragist of the women’s rights movement in America was born on November 1815 in Johnstown, New York. Her father was an important Federalist attorney who introduced her to the law and gave her the proper exposure to social and legal activism which allowed Stanton to realize, from a young age, how unjustly the law favored men over women. This early understanding of the discrimination between the sexes helped her set the course to advocating for women’s rights which Stanton was to travel the duration of her life. Stanton was one of the few surviving children of her parent’s marriage. Grieving, her mother fell into depression and her father wholly immersed himself into

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From this knowledge, Stanton realized that women did not have same rights with

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In this piece she addressed many of the issues women of that time were facing. Although it mainly was written to address the issues white women faced due to the way white women were the main focus of the women’s movement at that time. Stanton wrote this with the help of her fellow women that were at the Seneca Falls convention, due to their only being white women there it strictly addressed their issues. This document was meant to be a very explicate critique of the declaration of independence and the state of America as a whole at that time.

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Stanton is famous for writing about women’s rights in the Declaration of Right and Sentiments in 1848 (Document 6). Stanton’s argued that if it is in the constitution that equality be a democratic ideal, the nation should abide by. She specifically pointed out certain rights men had but women did not have, even though the constitution preaches equality and freedom. “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal...” (Document 6).

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She was not only active in the political culture of America, but also in the religious culture, as she graduated from Emma Willard’s Troy Female Seminary in 1832 (“Elizabeth”). Stanton was passionate about both women’s suffrage and abolition, and she focused her efforts to promoting justice in those areas. She worked with other famous women’s rights activists such as Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony, but what set her apart was her religious knowledge and her merging of politics and religion when advocating for women’s rights. She was daring in her willingness to critique religion, politics, and a wide variety of specific issues that surrounded women’s rights. Because of this and other factors, she is often seen as one of the most remarkable figures in the women’s rights movement and in American history as a

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Stanton and Anthony also opposed the 15th amendment unless it included the vote for women . The 15th amendment states that “the 15th amendment protects the rights of Americans to vote in elections to elect their leaders. Specifically, it confirms the right to vote and lists conditions that are illegal to deny another person the right to vote. Any American cannot be denied the right to vote, based on race, color or being a former slave.”

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton is the first person thought of when people think of Women’s Suffrage. She and her friends were the ones who made Women’s Suffrage known to America. Throughout her life she had the chance to have seven children, and still get to work and fight for Women’s Suffrage. She started many organizations and really pushed to get Suffrage. If she didn’t Suffrage most likely wouldn’t of been amended in 1920.

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Stanton shows a decent amount of credibility throughout her speech. Although the author fails to further strengthen her claims with some sort of statistics, she still manages to make concrete points that are able to stand alone. In actuality, Mrs. Stanton already generates enough credibility to support the arguments that are being explained throughout the speech. One cannot simply state that due to the fact of Mrs. Stanton being a woman in the 18th century, she automatically receives enough credibility to make her arguments. But in truth what makes Mrs. Stanton credible is the pragmatic standpoints she adopts when she addresses the growing issues that women face in the United States.

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America Adame Mrs.Gonzalez Engl 1302.S63 12 Feb ,2018 Women’s Suffrage Elizabeth is very well known for empowering the first movement in pushing for society especially men recognize women as actual citizens. She is especially known for the speech she did in Seneca falls and her use of rhetorical devices to make sure she has people’s attention and show how serious she was about the subject. In Seneca Falls Keynote Address, Elizabeth Cady Stanton uses anaphora’s, metaphors and allusion to persuade the audience to show that women should be treated equally just like men and should be more appreciated. Due to this speech it started the whole revolution in making sure women would be granted more rights as American citizens.

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It can be argued that black men were not more deserving of rights than women, and that black men gaining rights before women was disregarding women and their suffering as a whole. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton made this claim in a letter to The Revolution (June 18, 1868), when they wrote, “But we say, if you will not give the whole loaf of suffrage to the entire people, give it to the most intelligent first. If intelligence, justice, and morality are to have precedence in the government, let the question of the woman be brought up first and that of the negro last.” Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton believed that rights should be given to those who are of a higher moral status, that women deserved them more because of their intelligence. They also wrote, “How insulting to put every shade and type of manhood above our heads, to make laws for educated refined, wealthy women.”

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Her uncommon background did not detract from her beliefs and principles, rather they served to edify her. Stanton used her knowledge in penning the Declaration of Sentiments to decry men’s disenfranchisement of women, arguing for equality of rights for both

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Stanton states, “When the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man” (Stanton 1). Stanton used this line to start her declaration as Thomas Jefferson used it in the first line of the Declaration of Independence. Using such a well trusted piece of writing that helped shaped the United States increases her credibility which helps her case in her argument. Another point in Stanton’s view, “We hold these truths to be self-evident: in that all men and women are created equal” (Stanton 1). This line starts the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, but Stanton added in “women” instead of just “men”.

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