Differences Between The Seca Falls Declaration And The Declaration Of Independence

The orchestrators of the Seneca Falls Declaration understood that the Declaration of Independence made an argument that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights”, and they believed so strongly that men are equal to women, that they replaced the word “men” in that opening statement to the words “men and women”. They chose to use the same introduction because they earnestly believed that women and men were equal, and that being the case, they continued to introduce the public the grievances that would have been seen as unjust and unnatural if applied to a man. Although the reasons for similarities in the Seneca Falls Declaration and the Declaration of Independence are important on a larger scale, but the to understand why Susan B. Anthony and the other suffrage delegates chose to model their document after the Declaration of Independence, you have to look at the differences. Thomas …show more content…
The market in the colonies was not large enough to sustain itself (like most). This was transformed into the sixteenth grievance of the Declaration of Independence, which states that the colonies were declaring independence from the Empire “for cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world.” Similarly, feminists and suffrage leaders declared that men had done the same to them. They believed that they could do a job just as good as a man and deserve equal pay and benefits, so they included in the Seneca Falls Declaration that “He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns.” The difference in the two is that colonists didn’t argue that they could not own land because free men already could, and that’s all that mattered at the time. The women of Seneca Falls disagree, take another look at that idea, and make their