Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton ( born November 12, 1815 in Johnstown, New York, † October 26, 1902 ) was an American civil rights activist and a leading figure of the women's rights movement in the United States. Together with her husband Henry Stanton and her cousin Gerrit Smith, she was also active in the anti- slavery movement ( abolitionism ). She was friends with the abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass.
Life
Daniel Cady Stanton's father worked as a lawyer, then a member of the Congress and later had held a judicial office. The mother, Margaret Livingston, was the daughter of Colonel James Livingston, an officer of the revolutionary wars.
Stanton met her future husband, Henry Brewster Stanton in their work in the temperance and abolitionist movement. Henry Stanton was a journalist, preacher against slavery and, after her marriage, lawyer. They married in 1840 and had seven children. Stanton was buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York.
Feminism
Stanton wrote many of the more important documents and speeches of the women's rights movement and was with her friend Lucretia Mott, the author of the 1848 Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, the central and seminal document of the first wave of the women's movement. For this meeting, Stanton drafted the Declaration of Sentiments which declared men and women equal rights ( "equal" ). They also proposed a resolution, which was adopted after a vote in which they demanded the right to vote for women.
1851 Stanton met Susan B. Anthony. They were introduced to each other on a street in Seneca Falls, from their mutual friend Amelia Bloomer, who was also a feminist. Stanton and Anthony remained all their lives close friends and colleagues, although Stanton unlike Anthony a wider range of women's rights demanded as the suffragettes. In 1869 they founded the National American Woman Suffrage Association, an organization for women's suffrage.