Slavery
During the Civil War, Elizabeth Cady Stanton became a part of the political unrest. She and Susan B. Anthony made the National Women's Loyal League. This group attempted to pass the 13th Amendment (that would end slavery in the U.S.) immediately with a petition that held approximately 400,000 signatures.
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During Elizabeth Cady Stanton's time, she worked with other events as well as notorious figures.
Lucretia Mott
Along with Mott, Stanton organized America's first Women's Rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, well known was the "Seneca Falls Convention." This meeting in July 1848 gave birth to the "Declaration of Sentiments", which outlined the importance of women's rights being the same as all citizens. Stanton then still proceeded in writing and lecturing on the subject of women's rights.
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*click image above to read the "Declaration of Sentiments"
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Susan B. Anthony
International NWSA meeting in Washington, D.C. in 1888: Starting from the left in the 2nd row,
Alice Scotchard (England) Susan B. Anthony (United States) Isabella Bogelot (France) Elizabeth Cady Stanton (United States) Matilda Joslyn Gage (United States) Baroness Alexandra Gripenberg (Finland) |
In the early 1850s, Stanton met Susan B. Anthony. They created the Women's Loyal National League in 1863 in order to pass the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
In addition, the two women worked on a radical weekly paper, the Revolution, in 1868. A year later, they created the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) together. Stanton held the position of president until 1890. Additionally from 1881-6, they collaborated to make three volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage. In this, Matilda Joslyn Gage partook in this process as well. |
Religion
Elizabeth Cady Stanton utilized the part religion played in the situation of women's equal rights. She believed and argued that the Bible had a role in preventing women their full rights.
In 1895, she published the first volume of The Woman's Bible that critiqued this issue. The second then came out in 1988. Stanton's daughter, Harriet Stanton Blatch, aided in writing this also. |