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Seneca Falls Convention
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The first women's rights convention held in the United States, meeting in Seneca Falls, New York, from 19 to 20 July 1848 and organised chiefly by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. The convention adopted the Declaration of Sentiments, modelled closely on the Declaration of Independence, which asserted that men and women are created equal and catalogued grievances including women's exclusion from the vote, from higher education and from most paid professions. It is conventionally treated as the launching point of the organised women's rights movement in the United States.
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LocationSeneca Falls, New York, United States, held at the Wesleyan Chapel. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names United States directly: "women's rights convention held in the United States, meeting in Seneca Falls, New York, from 19 to 20 July 1848 and organised chiefly by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott."
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Wollstonecraft's 1792 argument for women's rational equality is widely cited as the intellectual forerunner of the claims the Seneca Falls organisers made fifty six years later.
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