LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
REFORM MOVEMENTS OF THE 19TH CENTURY
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Harriet Tubman
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Judith Sargent Murray
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Declaration of Sentiments was written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and signed by 100 people during the Seneca Falls Convention in New York in 1848.
Detailed explanation-2: -The “Signatures to the Declaration of Sentiments” is a document signed by 100 of the attendees (68 women and 32 men) of the convention. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the principal author of the document, owned this copy of the document. Emendations by Stanton’s daughter, Harriot Stanton Blatch, are visible on the document.
Detailed explanation-3: -Author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the woman’s rights and suffrage movements, Elizabeth Cady Stanton formulated the agenda for woman’s rights that guided the struggle well into the 20th century.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Declaration of Sentiments was written by Stanton and read by her at the Woman’s Rights Convention held on July 19 and 20, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York.
Detailed explanation-5: -Now known as the Declaration of Sentiments, the document was based on the Declaration of Independence. It proclaimed that “all men and women are created equal” and resolved that women would take action to claim the rights of citizenship denied to them by men.