The Declaration of Sentiments ends with a final plea “in view of this entire disfranchisement of one-half the people of this country. These included women’s inability to control property, stating “he has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns,” as well as severely limited educational and professional opportunities and-most controversially-the right to vote. In proclaiming that, “we hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal,” the Declaration of Sentiments replaced colonists’ grievances against a tyrannical king with the injustices women endured. The language in the Declaration of Sentiments was inspired by the Declaration of Independence. National Archives, Records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses and the Constitutional Convention. The original Declaration of Independence, 1776. Organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and other women’s rights and anti-slavery activists, the meeting attracted more than 300 participants including abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The Declaration of Sentiments was written at the first women’s rights convention in American history at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. You just spent July 4 celebrating the Declaration of Independence, but have you heard of the Declaration of Sentiments? Today’s post comes from Ashley Dorf, an intern in the Office of Public and Media Communication.
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