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The Daughters of Zion

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…

What Seneca Falls wasn't

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…

More controversial than preaching from the pulpit

Of the resolutions presented at Seneca Falls, voting was the most controversial. ElizCadyStanton insisted on it, but Lucretia Mott worried it was too…

Declaration of Sentiments

That they gathered people together was an achievement. Then they presented their topic cleverly and comprehensively, in a Declaration of Sentiments…

Seneca Falls deep dive

Daily Suffragist is taking a deep dive for the next while into what happened at Seneca Falls in 1848: what it was, what it wasn’t, who was there, what…