Finding none, Lucy decided to speak out on behalf of women. Because she was one of the first women to do so, she became known as the Morning Star of the suffragist movement. She spent the rest of her life helping to make America a better and fairer place for all its citizens, women as well as men. When Elizabeth Cady Stanton noted that the Declaration of Independence did not apply to women, she wrote a new one called the Declaration of Sentiments which did include women. It was adopted in 1848 at the First Woman's Rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York.
Failure is impossible.
Now women in America had the right to vote. So said Sojourner about her lack of rights, even after her emancipation. Isabella Van Wagener was freed in 1821. A few years later, she felt a calling to speak out everywhere against slavery and all other injustices. She renamed herself Sojourner Truth and set upon her way.