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A Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
One of the defining documents of the women's rights movement in the United States is the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions. Principally authored by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the declaration was signed by one hundred attendees 68 women and 32 men at the Seneca Falls Convention in Seneca Falls, NY in July 1848. The controversial and courageous document stated: "because women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed, and fraudulently 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 these United States."
It would be another 72 years before the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, giving women the right to vote. This short work is part of Applewood's American Roots" series, tactile mementoes of American passions by some of America s most famous writers and thinkers.
It would be another 72 years before the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, giving women the right to vote. This short work is part of Applewood's American Roots" series, tactile mementoes of American passions by some of America s most famous writers and thinkers.
24 pages, Hardcover
First published July 1, 1848
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
235 books84 followersElizabeth Cady Stanton was an American social activist and leading figure of the early woman's movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first women's rights convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized woman's rights and woman's suffrage movements in the United States.
Before Stanton narrowed her political focus almost exclusively to women's rights, she was an active abolitionist together with her husband, Henry Brewster Stanton and cousin, Gerrit Smith. Unlike many of those involved in the women's rights movement, Stanton addressed a number of issues pertaining to women beyond voting rights. Her concerns included women's parental and custody rights, property rights, employment and income rights, divorce laws, the economic health of the family, and birth control. She was also an outspoken supporter of the 19th-century temperance movement.
After the American Civil War, Stanton's commitment to female suffrage caused a schism in the women's rights movement when she, along with Susan B. Anthony, declined to support passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. She opposed giving added legal protection and voting rights to African American men while continuing to deny women, black and white, the same rights. Her position on this issue, together with her thoughts on organized Christianity and women's issues beyond voting rights, led to the formation of two separate women's rights organizations that were finally rejoined, with Stanton as president of the joint organization, approximately twenty years later.
Before Stanton narrowed her political focus almost exclusively to women's rights, she was an active abolitionist together with her husband, Henry Brewster Stanton and cousin, Gerrit Smith. Unlike many of those involved in the women's rights movement, Stanton addressed a number of issues pertaining to women beyond voting rights. Her concerns included women's parental and custody rights, property rights, employment and income rights, divorce laws, the economic health of the family, and birth control. She was also an outspoken supporter of the 19th-century temperance movement.
After the American Civil War, Stanton's commitment to female suffrage caused a schism in the women's rights movement when she, along with Susan B. Anthony, declined to support passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. She opposed giving added legal protection and voting rights to African American men while continuing to deny women, black and white, the same rights. Her position on this issue, together with her thoughts on organized Christianity and women's issues beyond voting rights, led to the formation of two separate women's rights organizations that were finally rejoined, with Stanton as president of the joint organization, approximately twenty years later.
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March 7, 2020
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s works were also brilliant. Her Declaration of Sentiments was absolutely hilarious - I mean the idea of having to write one, not what she wrote. In fact, what she wrote was simply beautiful and excellent. I followed everything that she wrote, and went back to the original document to check for the similarities. The two documents are precisely parallel. If it works on the first try, which it obviously did, use the same tactics at a later date for a different cause. Stanton tried this style and obviously had an impact on the public. Her words were definitely bold and called for.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s works were also brilliant. Her Declaration of Sentiments was absolutely hilarious - I mean the idea of having to write one, not what she wrote. In fact, what she wrote was simply beautiful and excellent. I followed everything that she wrote, and went back to the original document to check for the similarities. The two documents are precisely parallel. If it works on the first try, which it obviously did, use the same tactics at a later date for a different cause. Stanton tried this style and obviously had an impact on the public. Her words were definitely bold and called for.
About Me
For those new to me or my reviews... here's the scoop: I read A LOT. I write A LOT. And now I blog A LOT. First the book review goes on Goodreads, and then I send it on over to my WordPress blog at https://thisismytruthnow.com, where you'll also find TV & Film reviews, the revealing and introspective 365 Daily Challenge and lots of blogging about places I've visited all over the world. And you can find all my social media profiles to get the details on the who/what/when/where and my pictures. Leave a comment and let me know what you think. Vote in the poll and ratings. Thanks for stopping by.
April 22, 2018
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal."
Bad-ass historical women declaring their worth and demanding rights by directly modeling the Declaration of Independence? Brilliant
"He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead."
"He has withheld from her rights which are huge to the most ignorant and degraded men."
Did I mention this was penned in 1848? A full 72 years before women could legally vote in the US??
April 9, 2025
I have arranged my takeaway thoughts on this historic declaration into a haiku:
"The just know what’s right:
Saying liberty for all,
Not just for all men."
"The just know what’s right:
Saying liberty for all,
Not just for all men."
June 25, 2008
If you don't know about Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthoney, it's not your fault. They, like Washinton, Adams, Jefferson et. al. are the Founding Mothers. At the time they put together the suffraget movement, women who were married were men's chattel or property. Women couldn't vote, own land or property, go to college, and if they worked the little money they could make cooking, sewing, cleaning, went right to the man. This is a must read for women but men should read it too. Too bad they were women. If they'd been me they'd have statues in Washington and their pictures on money. A must read.
April 1, 2020
Stanton said “You didn’t include women in the Declaration of Independence. God & I both know you should fix that. Revisions are due 72 years ago.”
April 27, 2021
Is it bad that I find all of these women's rights activists extraordinarily funny? I mean, don't get me wrong, obviously I'm very grateful for the rights they fought to obtain for women. I just find it all very entertaining. If being a suffragette hadn't worked out for Elizabeth Cady Stanton, I feel like she could've written really good comedy.
January 30, 2019
”We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men and women are created equal.”
"He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead."
WELL DANG. Stanton really went for the throat and I love her.
"He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead."
WELL DANG. Stanton really went for the throat and I love her.
August 10, 2017
Terrifying that this could have been written today.
January 26, 2020
There are a few things in here that sound like the feminist screeching points we currently have that are just not sound at all. Otherwise, though, definitely big for its time!
September 1, 2020
A must-read for everyone. IDK why it isn’t part of the common core in Jr. High or earlier, beside the Declaration of Independence.
March 16, 2021
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January 26, 2022“We hold these truths to be self evident
All men and women created.. by.. the.. you know.. you know the THING”
All men and women created.. by.. the.. you know.. you know the THING”
October 24, 2022
Every Republican should read this so they'll be able to effectively refute the anti-suffrage misogynism of Democrats and their insidious allies, Whigs.
November 30, 2022
no balls
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September 9, 2023
Best book I've ever read. If I was in a burning building, I would for sure save this book first.
February 4, 2025
obviously classic and good content. taking off a star for lack of intersectionality
November 17, 2015
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal."
"The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her."
"The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her."
January 19, 2017
Holy shit 1848? These women get it.
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