Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Name: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Birthday: November 12, 1815
Birth place: Johnstown , New York
Died on: October 26, 1902
Elizabether Cady Stanton was the daughter of a United States congressman, who later became a judge on the New York Supreme Court. She studied law in her father's office and became aware of the legal limitations placed on women.
Living in Seneca Falls, Stanton became a friend of Lucretia Mott, they attended the 1840 anti slave convention and resented being prevented from speaking at it. Stanton became convinced that women should hold a convention demanding their own rights. On July 1848, she met with Lucretia Mott and other Quaker women . Together they call for the first women's rights convention called the Seneca Falls Convention . At the convention, Stanton herself wrote and presented a historic set of resolutions called a Declaration of Sentiments. The document echoes the language of the Declaration of Independence :
" The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman,.... absolute tyranny over her. .... women do feel themselves aggrieved , oppressed and fraudulently deprived of their most sared rights, we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States." ----- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Birthday: November 12, 1815
Birth place: Johnstown , New York
Died on: October 26, 1902
Elizabether Cady Stanton was the daughter of a United States congressman, who later became a judge on the New York Supreme Court. She studied law in her father's office and became aware of the legal limitations placed on women.
Living in Seneca Falls, Stanton became a friend of Lucretia Mott, they attended the 1840 anti slave convention and resented being prevented from speaking at it. Stanton became convinced that women should hold a convention demanding their own rights. On July 1848, she met with Lucretia Mott and other Quaker women . Together they call for the first women's rights convention called the Seneca Falls Convention . At the convention, Stanton herself wrote and presented a historic set of resolutions called a Declaration of Sentiments. The document echoes the language of the Declaration of Independence :
" The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman,.... absolute tyranny over her. .... women do feel themselves aggrieved , oppressed and fraudulently deprived of their most sared rights, we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States." ----- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
