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By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com Guide to Women's History since 1999

Woman's Rights Convention: July 1848

Saturday July 19, 2008
Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott wrote the Declaration of Sentiments for the 1848 Woman's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, deliberately modeling it on the Declaration of Independence. That convention was held on July 19-20, 1848. To honor the day, why not read through the actual text of the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments?

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