Message #92798

[Bianca]

The Call for Women's Rights 1848



On July 14, 1848, the Seneca County Courier announced that on the following Wednesday and
Thursday (the 19th and 20th) a "convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women" would be held.

The Convention had been planned at a meeting a few days earlier in nearby Waterloo, NY, attended
by Lucretia Mott of Philadelphia, Elizabeth Cady Stanton of Seneca Falls, Jane Hunt of Waterloo and Elizabeth McClintock of Waterloo. The meeting took place at the home of Jane Hunt.

The Convention would take place in the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York.

While the first session was planned to be exclusively for women, the men who arrived for the event were not turned away.

On the second day, the Convention approved a document titled the Declaration of Sentiments,
a statement written by Stanton and others and modeled on the Declaration of Independence.