Elizabeth Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York on November 12, 1815. Elizabeth married a man Henry Brewster on May 1, 1840 against her family wishes in a ceremony that omitted the vow “To obey”. (Women's Rights) At that time Henry was a popular abolitionist speaker. They attended the World Anti- Slavery Convention in London for their honeymoon. (Women's Rights) Henry was on the panel representing the American Anti-Slavery Society. This convention did not permit women delegates’ admission because of their sex. Eventually after a long discussion they allowed the women to enter only to sit at the rear of the hall but, not to participate. At this seating Elizabeth met Lucretia Mott. Lucretia Mott was one of six women delegates selected from …show more content…
She emphasize on the word “he” referring to men dominating women. She talks about education to even marriage being controlled by the men. Women never had the say so for their life. It also addresses the freedom and equality for women in the courtroom. Women never got the chance to have the positions that left them to make decisions for justice it was always men. Elizabeth Stanton wanted everyone to know that attended the conference that women were just as smart and witty as …show more content…
Many women wanted to step out and make a difference but they were scared. In the beginning of “The Declaration of Sentiments” Stanton put forth that no one should be treated differently, god did not put men to take charge over women. Men and women were created equally and should treat one another as just. The government has fail to help this matter so the women have to stand up on their own and do something about the inequality amongst women and men. Stanton stated in her Declaration that the government is castrated by men and men along. (Forham University The Jesuit University of New York) This was one of her major issues mentioned because without women working in the governmental field it will be hard for men to understand women perspectives on things, such as laws and alternatives to go about
She reinforces the social structural ideas that is presented in the text read in class. Women were not allowed to participate in public affairs. Only men can participate in the public arena. Their domain was the household. Women were in charge of the household.
“We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an inspirational abolitionist for the women’s suffrage movement. She was always prominent through her writings, actions, philosophies, reformist ideals and moral obligations to this era.
In 1840 she traveled to London with her husband, Henry Stanton, to attend the World Anti-Slavery Convention. There she met Lucretia Mott. The convention refused to consider women as delegates. Elizabeth and Lucretia were angered. They decided to have a women’s rights convention when they returned to America.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a 19th century suffragist, civil rights activist, and also helped organize the first women’s rights convention in 1848, The Seneca Falls Convention. Born in New York, Stanton got the best education that was available for women during this time because she was related to some of the wealthiest families in New York ; however, that being said she did not get a complete college degree. In May of 1840, Stanton married her husband She met Henry Stanton who at the time was an executive of the American Anti-Slavery Society . While in London for her husband’s Anti-Slavery convention, she met Lucretia Mott, who became her first female role model because she was a freethinker and believed in advocating for women’s rights .
Both rigid abolitionists, Elizabeth was excited at the chance to challenge injustice. Unfortunately, she and other women were excluded from the meatier conversations. One of the women Elizabeth met through this ordeal was the notorious Lucretia Mott, who decided that women should make their own convention. That
From a young age, Elizabeth Cady Stanton knew she wanted to fight for women’s rights. As a result of this determination, she would grow to become one of America’s well known women’s suffragists.
Women's rights are very important. Women have fought for their rights for many years. One of the main contributors to this was Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She fought for over fifty years for women's rights. This essay will argue about which text was more about Stanton.
Stanton opens her speech by establishing that the speech will not be about such things that men would think women would talk about. Her first sentence includes that they will “discuss our rights and wrongs, civil and political, and not, as some have supposed, to go into the detail of social life alone. �? Starting the speech off like this, allows the audience to know what the
The declaration essentially mocked the Declaration of Independence saying that all men and women were created equally. Even though they never experienced change in their rights, Mott and Stanton made a huge mark on history, changing women's rights forever. Of all the people who signed the Declaration of Sentiment, Charlotte Woodward was the only one who actually got to experience improved rights. Women would not have the same rights they do today if the fight for women's rights never
Throughout history men have oppressed women taking away their rights and being treated as second class citizens. In 1848,at the Senca fallls convention the Declartion of sentiments was signed to gain equal .The Author Cady Stanton based the Declartion of sentiments on the Declartion of Independance and through the use of anaphora she conveys the idea that womenhave been oppresed and should have the same rights as any other citizen. Throughout the text Stanton uses anaphora to great extent to demonstrate the way women have been treated as second class citizens. There are many examples of this in the text,but one that shows that women had no voice is:”He has compelled here to submit to laws, in the formation of which she has had no voice.”
For Elizabeth Cady Stanton it did not come easy, she went through many hard times to prove what she had believed in for years. This book give a very good understanding of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's life and the many struggles she had to overcome to get to where she was when she was finally satisfied with the work she had done. Stanton wrote, “It was often necessary to travel night and day, sometimes changing cars at midnight, and perhaps arriving at the destination half and hour or less before going on the platform, and starting again on the journey upon leaving it, in constant fever of anxiety (p. 121).” If it wasn’t for her and few other women who saw more potential in what women had to offer, i am not so sure that we wouldn’t be fighting the same fight they did all those years
During Progressive Era, there were many reforms that occurred, such as Child Labor Reform or Pure Food and Drug Act. Women Suffrage Movement was the last remarkable reform. This movement was fighting about the right of women to vote, which was basically about women’s right movement. Many great leaders – Elizabeth Cad Stanton and Susan B. Anthony - formed the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Although those influential leaders faced hardship during this movement, they never gave up and kept trying their best.
Men should have absolute rule over society. This was the mindset back when women's rights activists were considered rare and unorthodox. In A Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Elizabeth Cady Stanton rejects the status quo and finds solutions to the overbearing problems she sees within society. A concept that has greatly been dreamt over throughout history has been challenged, by a woman. Elizabeth Cady Stanton exerts repetition, allusion, and pathos to express her opinions in favor of increasing women's rights.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born on November 12, 1815, in Johnstown, New York. Elizabeth was an abolitionist and leader for the women's right movement. She was a persuasive writer when talking about women's rights. Her Declaration of Sentiments was a revolutionary righting that call women's rights across a wide range of rights. She founded and was the president of the National Woman Suffrage Association for 20 years and also worked really well Susan B. Anthony.
During the Second Great Awakening, slavery was considered not moral and sinful, in light of this many women joined the abolition and temperance movements. In the surge for the betterment of society women started to fight for equal rights among the sexes, such as the right vote. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony played major roles in the women’s rights movement. Stanton helped organize the Seneca Falls convention and wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, describing unjust laws that limited educational opportunities and voting rights. The Seneca Falls Convention was the first woman's right’s convention in the US and went on to inspire many others.