Declaration of Rights and Sentiments
The Declaration of Sentiments
In 1848, The Seneca Falls Convention adopted its Declaration of Sentiments. The Declaration was written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, an American women's rights activist, abolitionist. She modeled the Declaration after the Declaration of Independence, listing things that they believed they wanted changed.
Read the Declaration of Sentiments.
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