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The Declaration of Sentiments, also known as the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, [1] 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.
Report of the Woman's Rights Convention, Held at Seneca Falls, N.Y., July 19th and 20th, 1848; Text of the "Declaration of Sentiments", and the resolutions; Seneca Falls in 1848, National Park Service: Women's Rights; Newspaper clippings reporting on the convention. The Rights of Women, The North Star, Rochester, New York, July 28, 1848
Charlotte Woodward Pierce (January 14, 1830 – March 15, 1924) was the only woman to sign the Declaration of Sentiments at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and live to see the passing of the 19th Amendment in 1920. [1] She was the only one of the 68 women who signed the Declaration to see the day that women could vote nationwide. [2]
On July 19, 1848, the first women's rights convention in the United States began at Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York.
In 1848, she was invited by Jane Hunt to a meeting that led to the first public gathering about women's rights, the Seneca Falls Convention, during which the Declaration of Sentiments was written. Her speaking abilities made her an important abolitionist, feminist, and reformer; she had been a Quaker preacher early in her adulthood.
In the Declaration of Sentiments written for the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, Stanton listed a series of grievances against males who, among other things, excluded women from the ministry and other leading roles in religion. In one of those grievances, Stanton said that man "has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his ...
In 1972, radical members of the Women’s Health Movement compared a gathering in Iowa City to the 1848 Women’s Rights Convention organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Seneca Falls, which ...
Seneca Falls and Waterloo, New York, were important sites in the history of the fight for women's suffrage in the United States, as the site of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention on July 19 and 20. The convention drew over 300 attendees, [2] many of whom signed the Declaration of Sentiments which was produced as a part of the convention. [3]