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 Johnstown, NewYork. She was the fourth of sixsome children. Later she would meet and marry Henry B.Stanton, a prominent abolitionist. Together they would have seven 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.Nothing is easy when you are trying to change the opinion of the world.In the 19th century it was only harder if you were a woman. ElizabethStanton not only faced opposition from the outside world but also from thoseclosest to her. After her only familiar died she tried to please her father bystudying and doing the things that her brother had d whiz. Her fathers responsewas that he wished she had been a boy. Her high hope of working with her husb andto abolish thrall was shattered when she was not allowed to enter into theconventions. 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, shouldunderstand and applaud her work. However, that was not the case. During theSeneca move 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 often booed and hissed at. She suffered much at the hands ofthe media. The only support that she ever received was from her fellowsuffragists. This did not stop her from continuing her work and becoming anintegral part to the early womens rights movement.With seven children and an entire home base to manage, Elizabeth CadyStanton somehow found 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 firstcause was that of Divorce. She believed that people ought to be able to obtain adivorce 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 include if it was not for Elizabeth.