LAD # 9: Seneca Falls Declaration

The women involved in the women’s rights crusade of the mid-1800’s became disenfranchised when they were excluded in 1840 from an anti slavery conference in London. This conference they realized was also critical to their emancipation and civil rights as well. They then set out to have a women’s right’s convention which became known as the Seneca Falls Convention where the representatives met and gave a letter of their sentiments, explaining how they have been unfairly treated and gave examples. Then they set out to create specific resolutions- for example any law that set out to keep a woman from attaining her station in society are contrary to the force of nature and therefore of no force or basis. The coordinators of this convention and the authors of these documents were the driving force in women ultimately getting equal rights under the law.