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The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. [1] Its organizers advertised it as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Held in the Wesleyan Chapel of the town of Seneca Falls , New York , it spanned two days over July 19–20, 1848.
The Declaration of Sentiments, also known as the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, [1] is a document signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men—100 out of some 300 attendees at the first women's rights convention to be organized by women. Held in Seneca Falls, New York, the convention is now known as the Seneca Falls Convention.
The convention easily approved the Declaration of Sentiments that had been introduced at the Seneca Falls Convention, including the controversial demand for women's right to vote. Two African American men, Frederick Douglass and William Cooper Nell , both of whom were ardent abolitionists, spoke in favor of women's rights at the Rochester ...
In Congress, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political ...
In 1848, Douglass was the only black person to attend the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, in upstate New York. [ 110 ] [ 111 ] Elizabeth Cady Stanton asked the assembly to pass a resolution asking for women's suffrage . [ 112 ]
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Seneca Falls and Waterloo, New York, were important sites in the history of the fight for women's suffrage in the United States, as the site of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention on July 19 and 20. The convention drew over 300 attendees, [2] many of whom signed the Declaration of Sentiments which was produced as a part of the convention. [3]
On July 19, 1848, the first women's rights convention in the United States began at Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York.