Elisabeth cady stanton by Victor Dominguez

declaration of the rights and sentiments

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Stanton became the president of the National Woman Suffrage Association, which she and Anthony created to represent their wing of the movement. This was largely an honorary position; Stanton continued to work on a wide range of women's rights issues despite the organization's increasingly tight focus on women's right to vote.

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Stanton received a better education than most women of her era. She attended Johnstown Academy in her hometown until the age of 15. The only girl in its advanced classes in mathematics and languages, she won second prize in the school's Greek competition and became a skilled debater.

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Both Henry and Elizabeth were staunch abolitionists, but Henry, like Elizabeth's father, disagreed with the idea of female suffrage.One biographer described Henry as, "at best a halfhearted 'women's rights man.'' While on their honeymoon in England in 1840, the Stantons attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London

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The London convention had been a turning point in her life. Her study of law books had convinced her that legal changes were necessary to overcome gender inequities.

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he London convention had been a turning point in her life. Her study of law books had convinced her that legal changes were necessary to overcome gender inequities.

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In 1853, Susan B. Anthony organized a petition campaign in New York state for an improved property rights law for married women.During 1871, she and Anthony traveled together for three months through several western states, eventually arriving in California.

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As part of the presentation of these petitions to the legislature, Stanton spoke in 1854 to a joint session of the Judiciary Committee, arguing that voting rights were needed to enable women to protect their newly won property rights.

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hoping that ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment would lead to Republican support for women's suffrage. The NWSA focused primarily on winning suffrage at the national level while the AWSA pursued a state-by-state strategy.

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The NWSA initially worked on a wider range of women's issues than the AWSA, including divorce reform and equal pay for women.

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She also arranged smaller meetings with local women who were interested in women's rights. Traveling was sometimes difficult. One year, when deep snow closed the railroads, Stanton hired a sleigh and kept going, bundled in furs to protect against freezing weather.