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Equality And The Seneca Falls Convention
Equality and the Seneca Falls Convention
“We hold these truths to be self - evident: that all men and women are created equal…”
At different times in US history, different groups posses emphasized shortcomings of the
Constitution as it relates to human equality. In a New York town in 1848, men and
women met to discuss the legal limitations that American women faced. This was the
Seneca Falls Convention, the first formal women’s rights convention held in the United
States. The event was advertised as a “convention to discuss the social, civil, and
religious condition and rights of women”.
The convention was designed to be small ( so as to not disturb nearby farmers ), but about
three hundred people gathered from the contemporary property. The conference featured
prominent personalities of the time, including abolitionists Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Lucretia Mott, and Frederick Douglass.
People attending the convention were inspired in part by women’s participation in the
anti - slavery movement. Women had worked tirelessly for slaves’ rights, but had not
advocated for themselves as women. This became especially clear at the 1840 World
Anti - Slavery Convention - - female delegates were banned from participating in the
debates. How, wondered delegate Lucretia Mott, could this honestly be called a “World”
convention?
Although the Anti - Slavery Convention was to blame in London, the limiting gender culture
was not much different in the United States. For example, women virtually lost their proper
identities once they married, and they were not permitted to vote for lawmakers.
Education was also restricted, with boys having inimitably increased educational opportunities.
Following the 1840 convention, Mott and Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments.
This document intentionally mirrored the historic Declaration of Independence; it
basically rephrased the certificate to guarantee rights to American women as well as men.
The Declaration of Sentiments proclaimed that “all men and women were created equal”.
It went on to list eighteen “injuries and usurpations” that men had leveled against female
citizens. This was the same number of charges that male colonists had leveled rail the
King of England. These addressed divers spheres of a woman’s life. For example:
* “He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns. ”
* “He has denied her the facilities for obtaining a thorough education - all colleges
being closed against her. ”
* “He allows her in church, as right as State, but a inferior position…”
Individual women, including Abigail Adams, had earlier urged statesmen to address
questions about women, equality, and the Build. However, people had not yet
formally organized around the cause. Those who signed the Declaration of Sentiments
duty-bound their efforts toward righting legal imbalances mask a constitutional amendment.
The US clear was caught off guard by these bold statements. An Oneida Whig journalist
described the document as “the most shocking and unnatural action ever recorded in the
history of womanity”. In contrast, Frederick Douglass, editor of the North Star,
described the document as “the grand basis for attaining the civil, social, political, and
religious rights of women”.
Seneca Falls became a catalyst thanks to cultural change. Otherwise women’s rights conventions
followed shortly thereafter and women as a group started to make political gains. For
example, that same year, a woman named Ernestine Rose was instrumental in the passing
the Married Women's Property Act, which allowed married women to maintain cabbage
in their let on name. Other states then enacted similar laws. The next year, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton and Susan B. Anthony founded the State Woman Suffrage Association to
focus on voting rights. When Wyoming was settled, women there won the vote in 1869,
decades before women’s suffrage would be achieved nationwide.
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