Seneca Falls Convention July 19-20, 1848
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Continuing Education |
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Organization:National Portrait Gallery |
| Description: | The seed for the first Woman's Rights Convention was planted in 1840, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, the conference that refused to seat Mott and other women delegates from America because of their sex. Stanton, the young bride of an antislavery agent, and Mott, a Quaker preacher and veteran of reform, talked then of calling a convention to address the condition of women. Eight years later, it came about as a spontaneous event. The convention, [took place five days later] on July 19 and 20 at the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Seneca Falls, was publicized only by a small, unsigned notice placed in the Seneca County Courier. "The convention will not be so large as it otherwise might be, owing to the busy time with the farmers," Mott told Stanton, "but it will be a beginning." |
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| Keywords: | gender equity women's suffrage suffrage antislavery |
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Important event that provided the foundation for women's suffrage and equity. The National Portrait Gallery's permanent collection contains images of several of the people involved in the Seneca Falls Convention. The portraits listed below follow their order of appearance in the text: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) by Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856-1942) Oil on canvas, 1889 Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) by Joseph Kyle (1815-1863) Oil on canvas, 1842 Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) by an unidentified artist Oil on canvas, circa 1844 Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) by Adelaide Johnson (1859-1955) Bronze, cast after 1892 marble |
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| Publication Date: | July 2011 |
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Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.npg.si.edu/col/seneca/senfalls1.htm |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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