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Women's Rights: Susan B Anthony And Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were two significant leaders in women’s right’s movement in the 1800’s. They were good friends and both worked hard and overcame many obstacles for women to have basic rights. The actual Birthplace of Women’s Rights written by Howard Mansfield documents how although both worked very hard, Elizabeth Cady Stanton actually started the movement on July 19, 1848 when she pushed her nephew through a window to unlock a church that would become the birthplace of the first Women’s Rights Convention. It was a slow start but during the next three days more than three hundred women and men discussed “the social, civil, and religious conditions and rights of women. “ Basically women were locked out of jobs, education and the right to vote. Susan B Anthony, who was a Quaker reformer, came to the home of Elizabeth Cody Stanton and the two women spent hours sharing their thoughts before the convention. They promised to stay in touch. …show more content…

The women placed a small notice in the Seneca County Courier and persuaded a minister to let them use the church for the meeting. The women were surprised that there were some men supporters who attended. The organizers used the Declaration of Independence as their guide and named men as the tyrannical King George denying women their rights and pursuit of happiness. The document also detailed the ways that women were denied property rights, rights in marriage and divorce, and the vote. It was signed by sixty eight women and thirty two men in attendance. The next day, the convention worked on twelve resolutions which the third stated that women is man’s equal and was intended to be so by the

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They saw the parallels in each movement and saw that many were the same. So they decided to create a movement just for the woman so men could not get in there way. It was 8 years Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott would carry out their agreement to hold their own convention on woman’s rights, At the Seneca Falls Convention Adopted a “Declaration of Sentiments”- modeled on the “Declaration of Independence”, woman’s right’s, equal education, equal treatment, and the right to vote were what 68 woman and 32 men agreed to and signed in this Declaration. Frederick Douglass was among the signers.

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Anti Feminists continued to degrade and dehumanize women creating tension between the nation. The Philadelphia Public Ledger and Daily Transcript wrote, “ every true hearted female will instantly feel that the Seneca Falls Convention is unwomanly” this specific ledger sent the message that if a women is actually a women they should know that this convention was nonsense. This degraded women and hushed their voices. The statement shut women 's ideas out by saying to just go along with what everyone else thought about women. There was no reason that the Seneca Falls event was unwomanly.

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It was a document that resembled the Declaration of Independence, preamble, and some of the proclamation. As the second day came, about 40 men protesting for women’s rights showed up. Such as, Frederick Douglass, African American abolitionist. As the movement lead on, The Declaration Stanton read the first day, was adopted as well as signed by the assembly. One resolution that was declared for women was, “it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise (“Seneca Falls Convention Begins”).”

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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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She and Susan B. Anthony founded the National Woman Suffrage Association and had been president for over 20 years. She was a very persuasive writer that won the hearts and minds of so many men and women when she wrote the Declaration of Sentiments. Declaration of Sentiments is a document that was signed. And with the help of Lucretia Mott and quite a few other women, Stanton “held the famous Seneca Falls Convention in July 1848. At this meeting, the attendees drew up its “Declaration of Sentiments” and took the lead in proposing that women be granted the right to vote.”

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Anthony, a rising leader in the woman's suffrage movement, made outstanding contributions for women to gain the right to vote. Susan was a leading force in merging the Woman's Right Society and the Anti-Slavery Society into one organization named American Equal Rights Association. Susan could hardly gain these achievements without her important partner, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who encouraged her to reside the meeting and collaborated with her on various movements for many years. The first meeting that could be regarded as the warm-up of the woman's suffrage movement was held in the home of Stanton, whose enthusiasm and leadership had a significant impact on Susan. Susan remained unmarried during her lifetime and devoted much of her time to the cause of woman’s rights.

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“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal” (Notabelbiographies.com), Elizabeth Cady Stanton changed the words of our founding fathers ever so slightly. This was fitting since she is known as a leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Through her diligent work, she helped change the world for women. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born November 12, 1815 in Johnstown, New York (Biography.com). She was the daughter of Daniel Cady and Margaret Livingston Cady (Biography.com).

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Two women, Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott, decided to call a convention in Seneca Falls, New York taking the women’s rights movement to a national level (Hill,2006). Before the women’s rights movement had just been in small groups in different towns and cities and the convention signified the impact of this movement. July 19th and 20th in 1848 almost three hundred people showd up to the convention the majority being women although there were a few men who had attended even though the advertisement had stated the first day of the convention was for women only ( Kops, 2004 ; Lüsted,

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