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Seneca Falls Convention(July 19–20, 1848) Assembly held at Seneca Falls, N.Y., that launched the U.S. woman suffrage movement. Initiated by Elizabeth Cady Stanton (who lived in Seneca Falls) and Lucretia Mott, the meeting was attended by more than 200 people, including 40 men. The group passed the Declaration of Sentiments, a list of grievances and demands modeled on the Declaration of Independence that called on women to organize and petition for their rights. A controversial demand for the right to vote passed by a narrow margin. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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As soon as news of the Seneca Falls convention began to circulate, feminism began to be portrayed by its opponents as a threat to religion. The Seneca Falls convention was held in a Wesleyan chapel, and Anthony's successor was the Reverend Doctor Anna Howard Shaw, an ordained pastor as well as a medical doctor, who pastored churches in the Methodist Protestant denomination, founded in Baltimore in 1828. To the historical material the reader would expect in such a work, the author has added chapters on the legacy and aftermath of the Declaration, including its use by Lincoln in the Lincoln-Douglas debates, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the 1848 Declaration of Sentiment at the Seneca Falls Convention, and even by Ho Chi Minh in his declaration of independence of the Vietnamese people in 1949. |
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