Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Women's Struggle For Equality

“Women's struggle for equality was and is a long and hard battle.” Elizabeth Cady Stanton made her life goal to get women those same rights as men and that she did. Owing to the fact that because she spoke up for women in the U.S and many others like her, they were responsible for women having the right to inherit land and the simplest right of freedom. These are the things that she, unfortunately, did not grow up to have but things she advocated for us today to enjoy and cherish even when we don’t know it. “The women who embarked on this crusade in the mid-1800s were courageous, defying most respectable standards of their time to stand up for what they believed.” The struggle for equality is still an ongoing battle and from past revelations,
After marrying reformer husband Henry Stanton, in 1840 they went to the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London. This is where she joined other ladies in protesting their rejection from the gathering. When she returned to the unites states she had seven children in total and settled in Seneca Falls, New York. During her lifespan, Elizabeth Stanton is most famous for the Seneca Falls Convention In July 1848. We the help we other women rights activist such as Lucretia Mott the attendees were able to draw up a “Declaration of Sentiments.” It advertised itself as the different topics affecting women such as the civil, social and religious conditions. She took the lead in suggesting that women should have the right to vote. The “Declaration of Sentiments” was signed by 68 men and 32 men being a total of 100. There were 300 attendees overall and 200 of them being
Anthony on the Revolution, an activist week by week paper. The two then shaped the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869. She was the president of this association until 1890. “Besides chronicling the history of the suffrage movement, Elizabeth Cady Stanton took on the role religion played in the struggle for equal rights for women.” She argued that things like organized religions played a big role in denying women their exhaustive rights. With her daughter, she published “The Woman's Bible” which was a two part non-fiction book published in 1895 and 1898. This book's purpose was to challenge the customary position of religious universality that lady were thought to be subservient to man. This book was a controversial book causing an uproar from different organized religions and the bible.There was also protects from many people involved in the woman suffrage