USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Declaration of Sentiments set the stage for their convening. Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments to dramatize the denied citizenship claims of elite women during a period when the early republic’s founding documents privileged white propertied males.

Detailed explanation-2: -The road to drafting the Declaration of Sentiments started in 1840 when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott and their husbands traveled across the Atlantic to attend the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London only to learn that women were no longer permitted on the main floor and had to listen from a gallery.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Declaration of Sentiments was modeled after the U.S. Declaration of Independence and borrowed language from the antislavery movement, demanding that women be given full rights of citizenship. Sixty-eight women and 32 men signed the document.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -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.