LAD #9: Seneca Falls

The Seneca Falls Convention, where a group of women got together and wrote the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, was originally fueled by the anti-slavery crusade, in which women were not a lot to take part of. The Declaration is split into two parts, one being the Declaration of Sentiments, where the women state all the unjust laws and social regulations that are demanded of women, and the other part are the Resolutions, which provide substantial ideas and answers to the many social problems concerning women. In the beginning of the Declaration, the women begin with an extremely similar opening to the Declaration of Independence, with the statement of, "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal..." They continue to list problems with men towards women such as the men not allowing women to exercise her inalienable rights, forcing her to obey laws she does not have any say in, destroying her confidence in her own powers. They end the Declaration stating their desire for continual similar conventions. The second part of the Declaration, called Resolutions, the women provide answers to the several social problems previously stated, primarily viewing women as man's equal, allowance of the same amount of virtue, delicacy, and refinement of behavior that is required of women in the social state to man, and that women should have the ability to carry out their own inalienable rights. It is finally concluded with the statement saying that women was created in the same way by the Creator as man was, and she should have equal rights to those of man.