Elizabeth Cady Stanton s Declaration Of Sentiments

My paper will include Elizabeth Cady Stanton and what made her set out to start the Women s Rights Movement with her friend Susan B Anthony. Elizabeth became an early leader for the women s rights movements, writing the â€Å"Declaration of Sentiments† as a sign for equal rights for women.In every soul there is bound up some truth and some error, and each gives to the world of thought what no other one possesses.—Cousin. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born on November 12, 1815 in Johnstown New York. She was eight of eleven children, six of her siblings died. Her father was a Federalist attorney. Her father introduced her to law which later on grew into her legal and social activism. â€Å"Cady s father s profession also led her to embrace the†¦show more content†¦She wasn t allowed to go to college because colleges would let girls in, so instead she studied at Emma Willard s Troy Female Seminary. Elizabeth would read the law with her father but, she wasn t allowed to practice because of course she was a women. â€Å"She was drawn to the abolitionist, temperance, and women s rights movements through visits to the home of her cousin†, -Gerrit Smith. In 1840, Elizabeth went to the World Anti Slavery Convention that was being taken place in London. She attended it with Lucretia Mott, who is a outspoken Quaker abolitionist. Lucretia Mott was â€Å"one of the leading voices of the abolitionist and feminist movements of her time†. She was raised in a Quaker household. Elizabeth then made the â€Å"Declaration of Rights and Sentiments†, which she modeled after the â€Å"Declaration of Independence†. â€Å"The growth for the first Woman’s Rights Convention was put in 1840, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott at the World Anti Slavery Convention in London†, the conference that would not seat Mott and other women delegates because they were of course women. â€Å"Stanton felt the task of drawing up the Declaration of Sentiments that would define the meeting, taking the declaration of independence as her guide Stanton then would just go on how all men and women are created equal and then she went on to list eighteen injuries and usurpations on the part of men to women†. The convention took place in five