USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -The declaration asserted “all men and women are created equal.” Women’s rights activists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott signed the document, as did African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

Detailed explanation-3: -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. The document has long been recognized for the sharp critique she made of gender inequality in the U.S.

Detailed explanation-4: -On Thursday, July 20, 1848, at the morning session on the second day of the First Women’s Rights Convention, sixty-eight women signed the Declaration of Sentiments under the heading, “Firmly relying upon the final triumph of the Right and the True, we do this day affix our signatures to this declaration.