the seneca falls convention and gathering was the first discussions of voting rights for in the summer of 1848.
the seneca falls convention and gathering was the first discussions of voting rights for in the summer of 1848.
the seneca falls convention and gathering was the first discussions of voting rights for?
summer of 1848
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according to lisa tetrault, a professor of women's history, the seneca falls convention was central to their rendition of the movement's history. neither stanton nor anthony had been at the 1850 convention, which was associated with their rivals. stanton, however, had played a key role at the seneca falls convention in 1848, at which stone had not been present. in the early 1870s, stanton and anthony began to present seneca falls as the beginning of the women's rights movement, an origin story that downplayed stone's role. pointing out that the women's rights movement could be said to have begun even earlier than seneca falls, tetrault said the "history of woman suffrage" dealt with these earlier events relatively briefly in its first three chapters, the first of which is titled "preceding causes." in the volume, stanton did not mention the liberty party's plank on woman suffrage pre-dating the seneca falls convention by a month, and she did not describe the worcester national women's rights convention, organized by stone and davis in 1850, as the beginning of the women's rights movement. rather, stanton named the 1840 anti-slavery convention in london as the birth of the "movement for woman's suffrage, in both england and america". she positioned the seneca falls meeting as her own political debut, and characterized it as the beginning of the women's rights movement, which she called "the greatest movement for human liberty recorded on the pages of history—a demand for freedom to one-half the entire race."
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