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Arguably the most significant document to call for the advancement of women in nineteenth-century America, the Declaration of Sentiments was made famous at the first Woman's Rights Convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York, on 19 and 20 July 1848. Drafted by the then thirty-two-year-old Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902), the declaration outlined a series of grievances resulting from the disenfranchisement of women and proposed eleven resolutions arguing that women had the right to equality in all aspects of their lives, including the right to vote....
