The Seneca Falls Convention

The Seneca Falls ConventionBy: Ronnie Ecoff

Fact 1The Seneca Falls Convention came about in the year of 1840Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucrieta Mott met at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in LondonThe conference forced women to sit separately because of their genderStanton and Mott discussed holding a convention about women’s rightsEight years later they held the Seneca Falls Convention

Fact 2

Elizabeth Cady StantonStanton was an abolitionist and a leader in the early women’s rights movements

Lucrieta MottMott was an abolitionist and a women’s rights activist

Fact 3The Seneca Falls Convention was held from July 19-20, 1848This marked the first time that women came together, organized, for their rights as a groupThis was also the first public meeting about women’s rights in the United States

Fact 4There were about 300 people who attended the conventionThere was also some men who attended, one of whom was Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave and the leader of the abolitionist movement.

Fact 5Declaration of

SentimentsThe Declaration of Sentiments was modeled after the Declaration of IndependenceDemanded for women to have equal rights in education and employment with men100 people signed itFirst document pronouncing that women should have the right to vote

Declaration of Sentiments

“We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men and women are created equal…”

“Now, in view of this entire disfranchisement of one half the people of this country...and because women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed, and fraudulently (dishonestly) deprived of their most sacred rights, we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States.”

SummaryHeld July 19-20, 1848 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucrieta Mott300 people attended it, one was Frederick DouglassDeclaration of Sentiments was signed, which was modeled after the Declaration of IndependenceFirst organized public meeting about the rights of women in the United States