Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Womens Rights Movement :: Elizabeth Cady Stanton Womens Rights Movement

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Womens Rights movementElizabeth Cady Stanton was born November 12, 1815, in Johnstownspeople, NewYork. She was the fourth of six children. Later she would experience and marry Henry B.Stanton, a prominent abolitionist. Together they would have heptad children.Although Elizabeth never went to college she was very learned in Greek andmathematics. During her life, Elizabeth was a very important person to thewomens rights movement. This paper will present to you the difficulties sheencountered and her major contributions. n whizzntity is easy when you are trying to change the opinion of the world.In the ordinal century it was merely harder if you were a woman. ElizabethStanton non only faced reverse from the outside world but also from thoseclosest to her. After her only blood brother died she tried to please her father bystudying and doing the things that her brother had done. Her fathers responsewas that he wished she had been a boy. Her high hop e of working with her hubbyto abolish slavery was shattered when she was not allowed to enter into the patterns. She, as a woman, was told to keep silent and to do her work quietly.Who better than her husband, who champions the rights of black people, should visualise and applaud her work. However, that was not the case. During theSeneca Falls convention that she had organized, her husband left town ratherthan witness here propose the idea of womens suffrage to the group. When shelectured she was a lot booed and hissed at. She suffered much at the hands ofthe media. The only support that she ever certain was from her fellowsuffragists. This did not stop her from continuing her work and becoming an inherent part to the early womens rights movement.With seven children and an entire household to manage, Elizabeth CadyStanton somehow set time to help found the womens rights movement. Hercontributions were considerable. After attending an abolitionist convention inLondon she decided to concentrate her work on the rights of women. Her first gearcause was that of Divorce. She believed that people ought to be able to obtain a carve up on any grounds. She also championed the married womens property act.Perhaps one of her greatest contribution she had was the Seneca Falls convention.There she helped draft the Declaration of Sentiments. This was a list of twelveitems that were unfair to women. The twelfth, concerning womens right to vote,would probably have not been included if it was not for Elizabeth.