Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born November 12, 1815 in Johnstown, New York. She was the eighth child of 11 children. However, five of her siblings died in early childhood or infancy. Another brother died at age 20. Her father was a slave owner like many other families. Elizabeth was one of the top students in her class. She married Henry Brewster Stanton in 1840. At their wedding, Elizabeth Cady refused to promise to "obey" her husband in the vows, later writing "I obstinately refused to obey one with whom I supposed I was entering into an equal relation." Stanton met Lucretia Mott, a Quaker, feminist and abolitionist, at the International Anti-Slavery Convention in London, England in 1840 during her honeymoon. In 1848 Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and a handful of other women in Seneca Falls organized the first woman's rights convention. Stanton drafted a Declaration of Sentiments, modeled on the United States Declaration of Independence, which she read at the convention. It proclaimed that men and women are created equal. It was later passed. Stanton was invited to speak at a second women's rights convention in Rochester, New York. Although best known for their joint work on behalf of women's suffrage, Stanton and Anthony first joined the Temperance Movement. Together they founded the short-lived Woman's State Temperance Society (1852-53). Stanton and Anthony's focus soon shifted to female suffrage and women's rights. After the American Civil War Stanton and Anthony broke with their abolitionist backgrounds and fought strongly against ratification of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the US Constitution granting African American men the right to vote. Despite these efforts, the Fourteenth Amendment was passed in 1868.In 1881, Harper & Brothers Publishers issued the first volume of The History of Woman Suffrage, a seminal, six-volume work containing the full history, documents, and letters of the woman's suffrage movement. The book was written by Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Frances Gage, and Ida Harper. The book was completed in 1922. After 50 years working together with Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton died of heart failure on October 26, 1902.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born November 12, 1815 in Johnstown, New York. She was the eighth child of 11 children. However, five of her siblings died in early childhood or infancy. Another brother died at age 20. Her father was a slave owner like many other families. Elizabeth was one of the top students in her class. She married Henry Brewster Stanton in 1840. At their wedding, Elizabeth Cady refused to promise to "obey" her husband in the vows, later writing "I obstinately refused to obey one with whom I supposed I was entering into an equal relation." Stanton met Lucretia Mott, a Quaker, feminist and abolitionist, at the International Anti-Slavery Convention in London, England in 1840 during her honeymoon. In 1848 Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and a handful of other women in Seneca Falls organized the first woman's rights convention. Stanton drafted a Declaration of Sentiments, modeled on the United States Declaration of Independence, which she read at the convention. It proclaimed that men and women are created equal. It was later passed. Stanton was invited to speak at a second women's rights convention in Rochester, New York. Although best known for their joint work on behalf of women's suffrage, Stanton and Anthony first joined the Temperance Movement. Together they founded the short-lived Woman's State Temperance Society (1852-53). Stanton and Anthony's focus soon shifted to female suffrage and women's rights. After the American Civil War Stanton and Anthony broke with their abolitionist backgrounds and fought strongly against ratification of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the US Constitution granting African American men the right to vote. Despite these efforts, the Fourteenth Amendment was passed in 1868.In 1881, Harper & Brothers Publishers issued the first volume of The History of Woman Suffrage, a seminal, six-volume work containing the full history, documents, and letters of the woman's suffrage movement. The book was written by Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Frances Gage, and Ida Harper. The book was completed in 1922. After 50 years working together with Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton died of heart failure on October 26, 1902.
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