Declaration of Sentiments

The Declaration of Sentiments, or Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, is the document signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men at the Seneca Falls Convention in New York, the first women's rights convention organised by women. Its principal author, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, an organiser of the convention with Lucretia Mott, modelled it on the United States Declaration of Independence, declaring that all men and women are created equal. It listed women's grievances, among them the denial of the elective franchise, of property and of education, and demanded their immediate admission to all the rights of citizens. Frederick Douglass's support helped pass the convention's resolutions.