falls convention women rights convention advertised convention discuss social civil religious condition rights woman held new_york spanned days july attracting widespread attention soon followed women rights conventions including rochester new_york weeks later series annual met worcester massachusetts local area organized meeting planned event visit area philadelphia based famous ability rare era women allowed speak public meeting comprised sessions including lecture law humorous presentation multiple discussions role women society women presented prepared documents declaration sentiments accompanying list resolutions debated modified forward signatures heated debate sprang women right vote including urging removal concept convention sole african american argued inclusion suffrage resolution retained exactly approximately attendees signed document women convention seen contemporaries including featured speaker important step continuing effort women gain greater proportion social civil moral rights viewed revolutionary beginning struggle women complete equality men considered beginning women rights movement opinion echoed history woman suffrage wrote convention declaration sentiments single important factor spreading news women rights movement country future according historian convention time issue women right vote central united_states women rights movement conventions annual events outbreak american_civil_war background reform movement decades leading small number women began push restrictions imposed society men aided effort reverend began allowing women pray aloud gatherings men women second great awakening challenging women traditional roles religion recalling era set decision beginning american women reform movement starting abolitionist journalist organized anti slavery associations encouraged participation women garrison ideas welcomed majority unwilling include women split form abolitionist societies women began gain fame writers speakers subject abolition 1830s wrote encourage women write wrote books women rights social reform sisters published views slavery late 1830s began speaking mixed gatherings men women garrison women primarily slavery fact woman speaking public noteworthy stand cause women rights began groups women subject included women urging garrison phillips traveled husbands dozen american male female london world expectation motion forward phillips include women participation convention controversial london proposal rebuffed day debate women allowed listen gallery allowed speak vote friends london return voyage planned organize convention cause women rights separate abolition concerns wife founding members helped write constitution moved rochester joined amy post rochester based chapter american anti slavery society women rights boston began hosting conversations akin french women interested discussing great questions facing sex participants fuller published asking women claim self dependent 1840s women america reaching greater control lives husbands fathers directed lives women doors closed female participation state statutes common law prohibited women property signing contracts serving voting elections women prospects employment dim expect gain service related jobs paid half men paid work massachusetts founded husband attempt find way men women work women receiving compensation men experiment failed fall gave public speech subject movement women wrote friend moved audience tears saying infused speech dose woman rights good care private conversations met boston discussed possibility woman rights convention talked prior moving boston women groups led held public meetings philadelphia beginning wide circle friendly women rights began discuss possibility holding convention wholly devoted women rights october gave public speech subject women rights entitled province women brother church massachusetts march garrison stephen foster hosted anti meeting boston work elimination laws apply sunday gain time away day rest week women active executive committee spoke raised questions validity following religious social tradition political gains april response citizen petition passed giving women right retain property brought marriage property acquired marriage creditors seize wife property pay husband debts leading passage law supporters issued pamphlet probably authored judge relied readers familiarity united_states declaration independence demand created free equal idea apply equally sexes women men entitled enjoyment practical group married women western new_york wrote assembly march saying declaration independence declares governments derive powers consent governed women represented recognized government evident justice allegiance claimed numerous yearly petitions desirable object having disregarded ask august body abolish laws hold married women acts general_assembly pennsylvania passed similar married woman property law weeks later championed progressive state laws seen american women sign new hope women rights june rochester new_york nominated presidential candidate smith cousin enjoyed debating discussing political social issues came visit held june buffalo new_york smith gave major address including speech demand universal suffrage sense females males entitled vote delegates approved passage party platform addressing votes women world right suffrage allowed extend sexes universal exclusion woman argues nation far emerged far practically christian permit woman rise level human family convention votes placed calling smith vice president time united_states woman suggested federal executive office influence members known homes western new_york state near particularly progressive branch lived new_york marital relationships men women worked lived equality came community philadelphia rented property wealthy businessman hunt families opposed slavery participated free produce movement houses served stations traditional held men women meet separately making religious decisions 1840s determined bring women men faith expression spiritual equality june approximately including hunts formed radical group known yearly meeting friends intended elevate influence women affairs faith introduced joint meetings men women giving women equal voice planning visited central western new_york summer number reasons including visiting reservation nation slaves living province ontario canada present meeting left visited sister auburn preached prisoners auburn state skill fame drew crowds went announcement service sunday july joined witty sister months pregnant tea hunt home eldest daughters elizabeth accompanied mother given birth weeks earlier tending baby home tea present lifetime worth frustration long accumulating discontent women place society women decided hold women rights convention immediate future area drew announcement run announcement began words woman rights convention convention discuss social civil religious condition rights woman notice specified women invited day meetings july women men attend second day hear speak july announcement appeared giving readers days notice day convention papers picked notice printing july meeting place methodist chapel built congregation financed chapel scene reform lectures considered large building area open doors women rights convention declaration grievances resolutions home sunday july hosted smaller planning session convention eldest daughters elizabeth discussed makeup resolutions presented convention approval woman certain concerns appropriately represented resolutions composed taken resolutions demanded women equality family education jobs religion morals women selected declaration independence model declaration wanted convention declaration sentiments drafted round legged tea table changed words declaration independence appropriate statement women replacing history present king great_britain history mankind basis man woman women added phrase women men women created equal list grievances composed form second declaration july july home writing desk edited grievances resolutions lawyer politician husband helped document locating extracts laws bearing woman property interests added radical point list grievances resolutions issue women voting rights grievances added permitted exercise right franchise sentiments added line man woman franchise leaving representation halls legislation copied declaration resolutions final draft form presentation meeting saw addition woman suffrage warned wife turn proceedings like men day favor women gaining voting rights intended run office left avoid connected convention promoting unpopular cause asked sister accompany brought young son daniel july sent note advance able attend day feeling wrote bring sister women participate days convention day july morning day convention organizing committee arrived methodist chapel shortly clock hot sunny day find crowd gathered outside church doors locked overlooked detail young nephew daniel lifted open window doors inside session announced exclusively women young children sexes brought mothers men expecting attend men turned away asked remain silent years old appointed secretary notes morning session starting clock spoke woman audience accept responsibility life understand height depth length breadth degradation spoke encouraging cause read declaration sentiments entirety read discussed length changes incorporated question men signatures sought declaration discussed vote looking favorable including men motion following day men participate session afternoon session pause heat afternoon session began addressing audience declaration sentiments read changes resolutions numbering addition women suffrage read aloud discussed read humorous newspaper piece written sister wright questioned mother completed daily tasks required husband written advice bestowed seven year old delivered speech day business called close evening speech evening meeting opened persons addressed large audience spoke progress reform movements framed listeners social moral context struggle women rights asked men present help women gain equality deserved editor paper auburn new_york reported evening speech logical philosophical listened second day larger crowd attended second day including men arrived late took seat upstairs gallery left main seating area attend chaired morning meeting radical concept woman serve chair men women morning session day opened meeting minutes previous day read presented declaration sentiments regard taken right property wages earns stood recently passed spoke length property rights secured married women including property acquired marriage discussion declaration ensued including comments thomas document adopted unanimously question men signatures solved having sections signatures women followed men present signed declaration sentiments including women men participants endorse declaration focused time movement conspicuous chose sign declaration reported audience evidently regarded declaration bold ultra including lawyers known opposed equal rights women failed opposition neighboring bar room afternoon session day afternoon session resolutions read voted individually questioned ninth added women right vote read resolved duty women country secure sacred right franchise opposed resolution argued presence cause rational resolutions lose support argued social civil religious rights women addressed political rights james resolution said thee ridiculous defended concept woman suffrage saying women able affect future legislation gain rights african american meeting stood spoke favor said accept right vote black man woman claim right projected world better place women involved political sphere denial right participate government merely degradation woman great injustice happens half moral intellectual power government world powerful words true attendance resolution passed large majority spoke end session evening session day served chair evening session opening half past seven minutes read spoke defense severe accusations brought abused lords creation following read passages sir laws expose audience basis woman current legal condition man stood offer resolution resolved success cause depends efforts men women overthrow monopoly pulpit securing woman equal participation men trades commerce twelfth resolution passed spoke briefly calling woman true god rose speak support cause woman spoke hour beautiful spiritual appeals reputation speaker drew audience recognized chief planners architects convention close meeting committee appointed edit publish convention proceedings serving afterward news reports local newspapers printed reports convention positive reported convention forms era progress age convention kind held influence shall cease woman guaranteed rights enjoyed half creation whig approve convention writing declaration bolt shocking unnatural incident recorded history ladies insist voting gentleman domestic holes soon newspapers country picked story reactions varied widely massachusetts published opinion women equality lords wash dishes handle missouri flag independence hoisted second time atlantic wrote sincere republican asked sober earnest adequate reason refusing demand women equal participation men political rights answer mistaken demand assertion natural right conceded religious reaction ministers heading congregations area attended falls convention spoke sessions comments floor invited sunday july attended attacked convention declaration sentiments resolutions women congregations reported saw actions ministers congregations allowed reply conventions declaration sentiments hoped series conventions embracing country follow meeting fame drawing power staying upstate new_york area longer regional held weeks later rochester new_york serving president featured speaker years infancy movement local state women rights conventions called ohio indiana pennsylvania alive nineteenth amendment passed vote stamp issued remembrance featuring centennial celebration established covers total acres land nearby new_york usa park consists major historical properties including site falls convention home house declaration sentiments resolutions speeches drawn house listed national_register_of_historic_places lady hillary_clinton gave speech occasion anniversary historiography authored history women rights movement history received approval account involved including davis version gave meeting minor role equivalent local meetings held women groups late 1840s davis set beginning national international women rights movement worcester massachusetts women states invited influence felt continent great_britain agree address convention subject women rights movement said movement england america dated national convention held worcester mass october spirit nation centennial celebrations decided write expansive history women rights movement invited help stone declined project opinion anthony fairly portray divisive split anthony wrote published volume history woman suffrage placed important events stone contribution according professor women history central rendition movement history anthony convention associated rivals played key role falls convention stone present early 1870s anthony began present beginning women rights movement origin story stone role pointing women rights movement said begun earlier said history woman suffrage dealt earlier events relatively briefly chapters titled preceding causes volume mention woman suffrage pre dating month describe organized stone davis beginning women rights movement named london birth movement woman suffrage england america positioned meeting political debut characterized beginning women rights movement calling greatest movement human liberty recorded pages history demand freedom half entire race worked declaration sentiments treatise number ways small legged tea table draft composed importance similar desk wrote declaration independence gave table gave occasion birthday anthony meeting keeping promotion table iconic women rights activists place honor head funeral march subsequently displayed prominently stage important suffrage meetings resolution woman suffrage written table kept washington reflected august women rights conventions participated summer assessed greater projects missions involved wrote gatherings greatly encouraging hope long neglected subject soon begin receive attention importance demands pointed religious ideas provided fundamental source women attending convention active evangelical methodist movements document drew writings evangelical biblical claims god created woman equal man man god authority establishing absolute woman according author writings opened public eyes ideas like women rights time willing question conventional notions women
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