ABSTRACT
In 1848, five women organized the first women’s rights convention in the world, held in Seneca Falls, New York. All abolitionists, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Coffin Mott, Martha Coffin Wright, Jane Hunt, and Mary Ann M’Clintock modeled their Declaration of Sentiments on the Declaration of Independence, and declared that all men and women are created equal. This convention created an organized women’s rights movement in which women met for annual national conventions throughout the 1850s. They called for a range of rights, all undergirded by the need for women to have the right to vote in order to protect all of their rights.
