LAD #9-Seneca Falls Declaration

The Seneca Falls Convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York in July of 1849. It was the first women's rights convention ever held in the United States and is often looked at as the birthplace of feminism. Organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the convention attracted some 240 supporters. At the Convention, those present constituted the declaration known today as the Seneca Falls Declaration. Starting out much like that of the Declaration of Independence of the United States, the delegates adopted a statement, as well as a series of resolutions calling for women's suffrage and the reform of marital and property laws that had previosuly kept women in an inferior status to men. Not only does the document state that BOTH men and women have the power to overthrow the government if it doesn't follow the correct principles, but it also goes into some of the ways in which men have created a supremecy of themselves over women, through certain things such as denying them the right to vote, own property or wages, or have the power to educate themselves.