![]() 200 women convened at the Wesleyan Chapel, and Stanton read the "Declaration of Sentiments and Grievances," a treatise that she had drafted over the previous few days. In 1848, at Stanton's home near Seneca Falls, the two women, working with other women sent out a call for a women's conference to be held at Seneca Falls. The common outrage was the push for their founding of the women's rights movement in the United States. Mott and Stanton were barred from the convention floor. The convention was organized by Lucretia Mott, Jane Hunt, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, abolitionists who met at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. ![]() At the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, N.Y., a woman's rights convention-the first ever held in the United States- convenes with almost 200 women in attendance. 1848, document signed by 68 women and 32 men. ![]()
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