Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Women's Rights Activist
Biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
By: Kylie Fung
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was both an abolitionist and a women’s right activist, feminist, editor, and writer. Her writing, Declaration of Sentiments, gave a revolutionary call to all women across the country. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born on November 12, 1815 in Johnstown, New York. After she graduated from the Emma Willard’s Troy Female Seminary in 1832, she started to get interested in abolitionist, temperance, and women's rights movements from her reformer cousin, Gerrit Smith. She married Henry Stanton, who was a reformer. Together, they attended the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London where Elizabeth Cady Stanton joined other women who hated being excluded from men. Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and Henry Stanton had 7 children and settled in Seneca Falls, New York. In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton held a Seneca Falls convention with other women. The attendees drew up ideas about women’s right to vote. Stanton wrote about all the things the attendees said in a writing called “Declaration of Sentiments.” In the early 1850s, Stanton met Susan B Anthony, not knowing that they will be great partners in this fight.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony worked on a political weekly papers called “Revolution” in 1868. Then in 1869, the two of them formed the National Woman Suffrage Association also known as NWSA. Stanton was the first president for the association serving. She was president till 1890 because another organization merged with NWSA. The new organization was called National American Woman Suffrage Association. Stanton was the president of that association for 2 years.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton often travel to give lectures and speeches about women’s rights as a part of her job. Stanton and Anthony also worked on the first 3 volumes of Woman’s Suffrage along with Matilda Joslyn Gage. Stanton was against the Bible because it was denying women’s full rights. So, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her daughter Harriet Stanton Blatch published The Woman’s Bible which consist of 2 volumes.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton died on October 26, 1902 in New York City which was 18 years before women had the right to vote. She deserves to be known as one of the most remarkable in American history because she was willing to speak out on wide spectrum of issues.
By: Kylie Fung
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was both an abolitionist and a women’s right activist, feminist, editor, and writer. Her writing, Declaration of Sentiments, gave a revolutionary call to all women across the country. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born on November 12, 1815 in Johnstown, New York. After she graduated from the Emma Willard’s Troy Female Seminary in 1832, she started to get interested in abolitionist, temperance, and women's rights movements from her reformer cousin, Gerrit Smith. She married Henry Stanton, who was a reformer. Together, they attended the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London where Elizabeth Cady Stanton joined other women who hated being excluded from men. Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and Henry Stanton had 7 children and settled in Seneca Falls, New York. In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton held a Seneca Falls convention with other women. The attendees drew up ideas about women’s right to vote. Stanton wrote about all the things the attendees said in a writing called “Declaration of Sentiments.” In the early 1850s, Stanton met Susan B Anthony, not knowing that they will be great partners in this fight.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony worked on a political weekly papers called “Revolution” in 1868. Then in 1869, the two of them formed the National Woman Suffrage Association also known as NWSA. Stanton was the first president for the association serving. She was president till 1890 because another organization merged with NWSA. The new organization was called National American Woman Suffrage Association. Stanton was the president of that association for 2 years.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton often travel to give lectures and speeches about women’s rights as a part of her job. Stanton and Anthony also worked on the first 3 volumes of Woman’s Suffrage along with Matilda Joslyn Gage. Stanton was against the Bible because it was denying women’s full rights. So, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her daughter Harriet Stanton Blatch published The Woman’s Bible which consist of 2 volumes.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton died on October 26, 1902 in New York City which was 18 years before women had the right to vote. She deserves to be known as one of the most remarkable in American history because she was willing to speak out on wide spectrum of issues.