Who Is Elizabeth Cady Stanton A Political Activist?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a political activist in more than just the abolitionist cause, she is also credited with being the mother of the woman's suffrage movement. Stanton served as the president of the National Woman Suffrage Association and frequently lectured on topics of law.
The education and informal legal training Stanton received through the men in her life undoubtedly aided her in her activist writing and speeches. Her father was a New York state congressman and judge and she informally studied law under his instruction. In 1840, she married Henry Brewster Stanton who was a lawyer, speaker, and abolitionist. Her father and husband likely also influenced her political activism.
Stanton started her activism as an abolitionist. Along with Lucretia Mott, Stanton attended an 1840 anti-slavery conference in London. It was at this anti-slavery event that her women’s rights activism started. Both Stanton and Mott excluded from fully patriating in convention activities because they were women and
She claimed that Southerners worshiped cotton and gold before God and that slave owners take the Lord’s name in vain when they claim to be Christians. Slavery kills and abuses and it steals the slave’s very life. Slave owners frequently raped slave women and girls thereby committing adultery. ‘Honor thy father and thy mother’ rings hollow, claimed Stanton when slave owners sell their children by slave mothers or break up slave families. In the mid-nineteenth century, most of her audience would have been professed Christians. Stanton is aiming to convert religiously inclined people to the anti-slavery cause by arguing how slavery is against the core of Judeo-Christian beliefs. She lists all the ways slavery breaks the Ten Commandments in order to demonstrate to her audience that the abolitionist cause aligns perfectly with what they already