Declaration sentiments of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Seneca Falls Convention was held in 1848 at Seneca Falls, New York, the home of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who apprehended and directed the convention alongside Lucretia Mott. The motive and determination behind the convention’s apprehension was their exclusion from the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. The declaration of sentiments was a statement of complaints and strains after the declaration of independence, which aimed at mobilizing women to petition for their rights.
The document addressed the oppression of women by the government and society. In that era, women had no rights and were subjected to violence and mistreatment. It was a way of mobilizing women to fight for their rights and resist any form of mistreatment (Thomas, 2016). the document also addressed the women’s property rights when they got married. Women in the 19th century had no right to own any property; all assets were associated with the men in society; it rendered them to poverty whenever there emerged family issues and divorce.
There was Inequality in access to education. The boy child and male gender generally in the past used to have access to education. The girl child education was viewed as liabilities to the family because they will later be married. They were not allowed to go to work or get employment of any form; only men went to work, women and girls were left home to do home duties. The document demanded that women should be viewed as citizens with equal rights to men.
The fight and convention were because women had no social rights or dominance in any field or social role. The only role they had was to get married and raise the children all other duties that included work, property ownership, men and men dominated education or violence, and divorce made decisions.
References
Thomas, T. A. (2016). Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law. NYU Press.