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Elizabeth Cady Stanton 'Visits' Workhouse

A travel back in time this past Sunday

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, portrayed by our own columnist Irma Clifton, visited the Workhouse Museum on Sunday, March 20, 2011 in honor of Women’s History Month. Stanton, along with Lucretia Mott and others, organized a women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York in 1848, the first public women’s rights meeting in the United States. It was there she presented her Declaration of Sentiments based roughly on the Declaration of Independence, but including women as well as men. Two years later she teamed up with Susan B. Anthony and while Stanton stayed home with her growing family writing speeches in support of women’s suffrage, Anthony, who was unmarried and free to travel, delivered them in appearances throughout the country. A prolific writer, Stanton produced some of the most influential speeches, books, and articles of the women’s rights movement. Sadly, Stanton did not live to see her goal of votes for women accomplished. She died in New York City in 1902. It took another 18 years, until the ratification of the 19th Amendment, before women were granted the right to vote in the United States.


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