Declaration Of Sentiments Analysis

Luis Arias
Analysis of The Declaration of Sentiments Written in 1848 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Declaration of Sentiments has changed the world of women’s rights, changing it into what it is today. This document was written as a declaration, and as a petition. It was written for the Seneca Falls Convention on July 19-20 1848. This convention was for the purpose of women discussing their rights and desires to be free of the oppression that they faced. On the second day of the convention, men were invited to come and show support to the women. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born on November 12, 1815, and died on October 26, 1902. She was born number eight of eleven children to parents Daniel Cady, and Margaret Livingston Cady. Her mother was

Women’s suffrage has been a prominent issue and even now, there are issues of sexism and equal rights. This document is valuable in the sense that it really laid out the terms of conditions, which a certain group of women wanted to get across. It also provided much of the ground work as well as the push needed to actually get their job done. This document was created in order to list many of the issues that were affecting women at the time, and things that can be done to rectify these wrongs. It was created to insight change in the world that they lived in, and has affected the world, which we experience today. Stanton states many of the problems that women faced. The first is that women are not treated equally to men at all. In fact, women had almost the same relationship to men, as slaves did to their masters. Because of this, one of the first thing that Stanton writes is that men and women are created equal, therefore should have the same rights as each other. Stanton then proceeds by saying that it is the right of those who suffer to refuse allegiance to those who are oppressing them. She is setting up the scene to talk about women’s rights. She then makes a daring statement by saying that history is riddled with “repeated injuries” by man towards women. This could have been a potentially dangerous statement to make as a woman during the 1800s. The first specific issue mentioned by Stanton is that man has not granted women the right to vote. The next grievance is that fact that women were made to obey laws, which they had no say in writing. Stanton wanted women to be able to vote as well as have a voice in the decisions that are made outside of elections. She then mentions how even the most “ignorant and degraded” men have the rights that women of good standing do not. Women are left without representation and once married, are “civilly dead”. She then talks about how men