Declaration of Sentiments Table, 1848
date: label: date made
content: by 1848
label: associated date
content: 1848
name: label: associated person
content: Anthony, Susan B.
notes: label: Description
content: Table on which Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted the Declaration of Sentiments.
label: Description
content: In July, 1848, several days before the first woman’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York, a group of five women that included Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott drafted a declaration of rights for women on this table as a statement of purpose for the convention. Now known as the Declaration of Sentiments, the document was based on the Declaration of Independence. It proclaimed that “all men and women are created equal” and resolved that women would take action to claim the rights of citizenship denied to them by men. The Declaration of Sentiments was adopted officially at the Seneca Falls Convention in July 1848 and signed by sixty-eight women and thirty-two men. The convention and Declaration mark the start of the formal women’s rights movement in the United States.
place: label: associated place
content: United States: New York, Seneca Falls
topic: label: general subject association
content: History, Women's Suffrage
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content: Political History: Political History, Womens History/Reform Movements Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
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content: Woman Suffrage
label: Exhibition
content: American Democracy
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: National American Woman Suffrage Association
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.026160
label: catalog number
content: 26160
label: accession number
content: 64601
objectType: label: Object Name
content: table
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 in x 35 3/4 in; 60.96 cm x 90.805 cm