Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Woman's Rights Activist

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a woman’s rights activist. Stanton wrote the declaration of sentiments for the calling of female equality. Elizabeth was born on the 12th of November in 1815. She grew up and was born in Johnstown, New York. Stanton was not only an activist but an abolitionist and a great writer as well as an editor. She worked closely with Susan B. Anthony who was a feminist and an american social reformer. Stanton was the president for the National Women Suffrage Association. Stanton was a part of this association for twenty years. Stanton graduated from the Emma Willard’s Troy Female Seminary. Straight out of graduating from this seminary she started her path of being an abolitionist and the women’s rights movement. This started

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