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That they gathered people together was an achievement. Then they presented their topic cleverly and comprehensively, in a Declaration of Sentiments…
Day 1 was for women only. Lucretia Mott ran the meeting; ElizCadyStanton presented the Declaration for discussion & amendment. On the 2d day she…
Sexism in the abolitionist movement planted one of the seeds for Seneca Falls. In 1840 the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London refused to seat…
Of the resolutions presented at Seneca Falls, voting was the most controversial. ElizCadyStanton insisted on it, but Lucretia Mott worried it was too…
What Seneca Falls wasn’t: It wasn’t the first time these ideas were contemplated. Stirrings of women’s equality are threaded thru the abolitionist…
The original Moses didn’t get to the Promised Land, but at least he didn’t have to fight for his pension. His successor, Harriet Tubman, did. (Thread)…
In Utah, suffrage was politically entwined w/polygamy. Women 1st voted in 1870, when UT was a territory seeking to preserve plural marriage vs a…
All the women at Seneca Falls were white, but the very same year a group of African American women also organized for equal rights. The Daughters of…
Welcome, new followers of @DailySuffragist! Don’t miss highlights from the first month of this project: Harriet Tubman’s lifetime of majesty; a deep…
Yes, they had a bake sale. Black & white men & women didn’t share public space in the 1830s. Female Anti-Slavery Societies were an…