It was precipitated by a visit to the house of Martha C. Wright in Waterloo, and was spurred on by the recent passage of a state property rights act.
It was precipitated by a visit to the house of Martha C. Wright in Waterloo, and was spurred on by the recent passage of a state property rights act. Four of the five planners present were Quakers, yet it was the Wesleyan Methodist Church that was agreed upon as the gathering place. James Gordon Bennett in his intent to deride printed its eleven resolutions word for word in the New York Herald. Frederick Douglass was present and greatly approved of its Declaration of Sentiments. Organized by Lucrecia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, FTP, name this 1848 women's rights convention in upstate New York.
It was precipitated by a visit to the house of Martha C. Wright in Waterloo, and was spurred on by the recent passage of a state property rights act.
{Seneca Falls} Convention