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Apr 27, 2007 7:42pm
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ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an independent woman with dreams of bringing equal rights to all people, but especially to woman. Stanton very easily could have lived a joyous life without a man, but she did marry, and from the day that the word "obey" was omitted from her wedding vows, Stanton was on mission.
While attending the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London with her husband, Stanton met Lucretia Mott. At the convention the two discussed a need for a woman's rights convention. Stanton was named the leader of the woman's rights movement in the United States by her friends.(Huntington org) They began their movement at the Seneca Falls Convention for anti-slavery in 1851. In that same year, Stanton met Susan B. Anthony, and recognizing their common passion for equal rights, became friends and colleagues. (nps.gov)
In 1868, along with her close friend Susan B. Anthony, she founded the National Woman's Suffrage Association (NWSA), of which Stanton was president. In that same year, she began publishing the Revolution, a newspaper dedicated to woman's rights. However, the paper did not focus on suffrage alone, it also called for reforms in the social, economic and political status of woman. She wanted to change society's view of the role of woman and also to change the legal status of woman. Stanton believed that woman and men should be educated together to ensure equal education opportunities for woman and believed adamantly in husbands and wives sharing the role of caring for children.(Huntington org)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, along with Matilda Joslyn Gage, wrote the Declaration of Rights of the Woman of the United States. Anthony then presented them to Congress during the Centennial Celebration in Washington D.C. in 1876. Note that this was done without an invitation. The three women were laughed at, but refused to give up on their cause. All of them signed the Celebration of the NWSA.(nps.gov)
In 1890 Stanton and Anthony United the National Woman's Suffrage Association and the American Woman's Suffrage Association, creating the National American Woman's Suffrage Association. This action was ultimately to help them in their struggle to get woman's suffrage.
Though many other organizations were around in support of woman's rights, they didn't focus solely on woman's suffrage, but instead on moral reforms. That was the reason why Stanton and Anthony chose to merge with the American Woman's Suffrage Association.(womenshistory)Being the anti-chauvinist that she was, Stanton was even disgusted by the Bible. She attacked the pulpits and the dogma that was preached from them. When preachers tried to tell her that the New Testament was better than the Old, She would reply, " All men of then Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example." In 1895, she published The Woman's Bible, which only contained two volumes of the original text. The book caused much controversy, which resulted in it's being published multiple times. In 1896, the National Woman's Suffrage Association condemned The Woman's Bible. (Murphy, 1999)
Though Stanton never lived to see the day of the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, her accomplishments in her pursuit for woman's suffrage will not soon be forgotten. Stanton's message is probably best defined by her epitaph, which reads:
I live...
For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance
And the good that I can do.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cady_Stanton [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cady_Stanton]
nps.gov/archive/wori/ecs.htm [nps.gov/archive/wori/ecs.htm]
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