Lucretia Mott

and fifty years ago on July 19 and July 20, 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Quaker abolitionist Lucretia Mott met in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss the future of women’s rights. Together, Stanton and Mott drafted the Declaration of Sentiments that echoed the Declaration of Independence, by stating” We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.” Both Stanton and Mott had high hopes that their declaration would help women gain equality in the workplace,…

Sentiments written in 1848. The first turning point for women’s rights in the United States; for it brought to the nation’s collective conscience the plight of womenkind. Applying the Sentiments’ words—and therefore the ideas of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony—presents itself today as something wholly original, an idea, written in the guise of the Declaration of Independence, in order to mock and resolve the plight of women. Yet it is still said today, women are not…

The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions is a political text. This text was presented in the first women's rights convention of the United States, held in Seneca Falls (New York) in 1848. During this convention, seventy women and thirty men gathered to discuss about the conditions of the rights of women in social, civil and religious life. At that time, the country was enjoying a period in which only free men (white, non-slaves) had the right to vote. In consequence, slaves,…

The Women’s Rights Movement is said to have reached its peak when women were given the right to vote, but we know this is not true as women still fight for what they think is their right to abortion and equal pay. The Women’s Right Movement began at the end of the 18th Century to the beginning of the 19th century but didn’t gain moment until the 1830’s to 1840. In response to the Panic of 1837, in 1839, Mississippi was one of the first states to grant women the right to own property with one…

(Eleanor Vincent, Lydia Williams, Lydia Osborn, Susan Ormsby, Amy Ormsby, and Anna Bishop) portrayed in the book are left out of almost all other retellings of women’s history in favor of more famous figures, such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. These six ordinary women organized a meeting in Albany to discuss women’s rights and place in society before the famous Seneca Falls Convention, which is often marked as the first convention to discuss women’s rights in America. The six…

The fact that two Quaker women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott had the courage to stand up and start a movement by holding the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 for the right to vote and equal rights for not only slaves but for Women 's rights, marking the beginning of something even bigger then they realized…

Over the course of my time as a political reformer and feminist, I strongly criticized the limitations of rights/abilities for women. I attacked foolish attempts to limit us to merely the domestic sphere. I fought against the limitless political control men had over us regardless of our personal intelligence and ability in comparison with theirs. Specifically I criticized our inability to vote, fully take part in politics, retain land ownership after marriage, and inability to take part in a…

Movement. The first beginnings of the Women’s Suffrage Movement of the United States were in 1848 and they held the first women’s rights convention. This convention was the Seneca Falls Convention and the organizers were Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott, their overall purpose was to move forward in women’s rights. They mainly argued that women had the constitutional right to vote and should be treated equal to men. Now usually known as the Feminist Movement, it is now a political movement…

women’s rights” (181). This bothered Stanton everyday of her childhood and was the start of her endeavour towards feminism. Another very influential person in Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s life was Lucretia Mott. In the nineteenth century, girls role models were usually men, but her first female role model was Mott, even though she was twice Stanton’s age. She was a “freethinker, an advocate for women’s rights, and a patient mentor, who encouraged the younger women to pursue ‘all the enquires of…

To begin, Stanton made her start in 1848 when she held the Seneca Falls convention with the help of Lucretia Mott. This convention was made a secret and it allowed women to speak up about their feelings towards equality and try to convince others to feel the same way (National Park Service “Elizabeth Cady Stanton”). Additionally, Stanton proved she was a leader…