Click2History - Women's Rights, Declaration of Sentiments - Chapter 4

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>WOMEN'S RIGHTS</p> <p><font size=4>CHAPTER 4 - DECLARATION OF SENTIMENTS</font></p> </font> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">On July 16, 1848, in another <a href="http://www.nps.gov/wori/vtMH3.htm" target="_blank"><b>home</b></a> owned by Richard Hunt (known as the <a href="http://www.nps.gov/wori/m'clintockPG2.jpg" target="_blank"><b>M’Clintock House</b></a> in the upstate New York village of <a target="_blank" href="images/waterloo.jpg"><b>Waterloo</b></a>), Elizabeth Cady Stanton, with the help of her colleagues, <a href="http://www.nps.gov/wori/vtMH7.htm" target="_blank"><b>drafted</b></a> a "<a target="_blank" href="images/declaration.jpg"><b>Declaration</b></a> of <a href="http://www.nps.gov/wori/report4.htm" target="_blank"><b>Sentiments</b></a>."</p> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">That document served as a rallying cry for the <a href="http://www.nps.gov/wori/report1.htm" target="_blank"><b>first</b></a> Women’s Rights Convention which <a href="http://www.nps.gov/wori/senecafalls1848.htm" target="_blank"><b>began</b></a> three days later in the <a target="_blank" href="images/wesleyan.chapel.jpg"><b>Wesleyan Chapel</b></a> of <a href="http://www.nps.gov/wori/ppmaps/acf44c0.pdf" target="_blank"><b>Seneca Falls</b></a> (this is a PDF link). <a href="http://www.nps.gov/wori/particip.htm" target="_blank"><b>Three hundred</b></a> women and men, including the abolitionist <a href="http://www.frederickdouglass.org/douglass_bio.html" target="_blank"><b>Frederick Douglass</b></a>, attended.</p> <p>The Declaration of Sentiments, largely patterned after the <a href="http://www.awesomestories.com/history/patriot/patriot_ch10.htm" target="_blank"><b>Declaration of Independence</b></a>, declares that women, as well as men, are created equal:</p> <blockquote><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i>We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.</i></b></font></blockquote> <p align="justify">The continuing problem for American women, of course, was that <i>they</i> were governed <i>without</i> their consent.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="womens_rights_ch3.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="womens_rights_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="womens_rights_ch5.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </body>