“The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions” is a speech by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the purpose of which, was to bring light to the unfair treatment of women, domestically, politically, and socially, as well as to entice both men and women to join the woman’s equal rights movement. In order for the speech to be a success in a male-dominated society Stanton modeled it after the Declaration of Independence, by likening the oppression and mistreatment of women under men, to the oppression and…
Elizabeth Cady Stanton is one of the greatest revolutionaries of American history. Stanton was a pioneer for the rights of women, but she was also an advocate for all people no matter their sex or race was. She fought for equality for all people. She penned many of the great historical documents of the American Women’s Suffrage Movement and her exact words are used in the nineteenth amendment of the Bill of Rights. She also wrote many controversial articles in national magazines and her most…
This conversation led them to begin to rebel for women, and one important woman in this group was Elizabeth Cady Stanton (The women’s rights movement: A timeline of significant events). Elizabeth was one of the first leaders of the women’s rights movement and she wrote the Declaration of Sentiments which was based on female equality. In July 1848 Elizabeth Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and many other women held the Seneca Falls Convention and this is where the Declaration of Sentiments…
man. Women’s activists and feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Catherine Beecher, were participants of the same movement but believed in different end goals. Feminism is the support of women 's rights in regards to political, social, and economic equality to men. Feminism was a byproduct of abolitionist movement, because many women compared their own lives to the life of an African Slave, because slaves and women…
In “The Destructive Male” by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, rhetoric is employed to persuade the reader or listeners to acknowledge and grant women equal rights. Stanton also creates a tone of zealous outrage and accusation with her use of literary devices such as alliteration and personification. Shortly after the United States Civil War, Elizabeth Cady Stanton delivered her speech at the Women’s Suffrage Convention in 1868 (Bjornlund). Stanton had to appeal to the crowd of men and women,…
important women to this cause Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan…
Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth all greatly impacted America by contributing to human rights. Susan B Anthony impacted human rights through her influential speeches…
held inside the Wesleyan Chapel. The meeting was held by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. 68 women and 32 men agreed on signing a Declarations of Sentiments, the declaration demanded equal rights for men in women in the workplace, education, and give women the rights to vote, and discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women. The primary writer of the Declaration of Sentiment was Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Stanton based this document on the Declarations of…
in America that discussed the rights of women. Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton then later added Jane Hunt, Mary Anne McClintock, and Mott’s sister, Martha Wright to their new idea. The New York Married Women’s Property Rights legislation had just come out when these women all met to discuss what was happening and how they felt. This gave them the courage and fire to stand up for what they believed in. Elizabeth Cady Stanton urged the rest of her group to finally take a stand and to…
piece of property with no voice. Just by imagining that in the 21st century, it will blow people's minds but what about people back then? Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an early leader of the woman's rights movement, writing the Declaration of Sentiments as a call to arms for female equality. She was born on November 12, 1815, in Johnstown, New York, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an abolitionist and leading figure of the early women's movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments…