The Convention At Seneca Falls And The Beginning Of The Suffrage Movement
The power and the enticement of the right to vote brought over three hundred men and women to the tiny hamlet of Seneca Falls, N.Y., in the summer of 1848 to attend the first women’s rights convention organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two abolitionists who had met at the 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention in London. These women realized early that to achieve reform, women needed to win the right to vote.
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