Report of the Women's Rights Convention

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National Park Service

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$2.99

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Official Store

During a hot summer in 1848, a convention was held by the Women of Seneca County, NY to discuss the social, civil, and religious conditions of women in the United States. Three hundred met inside the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Seneca Falls from July 19-20 to read, revise, and debate Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s proposed "Declaration of Sentiments." The Report of the Woman’s Rights Convention is a pocket-sized, reproduction booklet first printed in 1848 within Frederick Douglass’ antislavery newspaper the North Star. In addition to being the earliest known print of "Declaration of Sentiments" it…