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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 happened, and how the story got told. #Suffrage100 #WomensEqualityDay #EqualityCantWait…

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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 mirroring the Dec of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women…

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Of the resolutions presented at Seneca Falls, voting was the most controversial. ElizCadyStanton insisted on it, but Lucretia Mott worried it was too radical, too inflammatory. To me it seems pedestrian compared with the other demands women made that…

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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 movement. And since 300 locals showed up on short notice, clearly it was being discussed in many homes.…

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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 Zion, preachers and lay leaders in the AME Church, went to the Church’s general conf. to demand they…
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