Women's Rights movement/Seneca Falls

Women's Rights movement/Seneca Falls

In 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia

Mott decided to hold a women’s rights convention. They

announced what would become known as the Seneca Falls Convention. Stanton and Mott composed an agenda and a detailed statement of grievances. Stanton carefully modeled this “Declaration of Sentiments” on the Declaration of Independence. The second paragraph began with a revision of very familiar words: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are cre- ated equal.” Some of the resolutions that were also proposed at the convention spoke to the circumstances with which women reformers had struggled. Nearly 300 women and men gathered at the Wesleyan Methodist Church for the convention. Also a black women traveled around and preached the message of Womens rights and her speeches won the approval of many.