The Seneca Falls Convention

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Before marriage, women could own property, but they were taxed without being able to vote. In the few occupations open to women, they were paid far less than men were. No liberal arts college but Oberlin would admit women. Professions other that writing and school teaching were closed to women. Women could not practice law or medicine. In all, their new Declaration Of Sentiments argued, man has endeavored, in every way that he could, to destroy confidence in her own powers, to lesson her self respect, and make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life. Women were clearly treated as a sub-citizen class in the new American democracy (Rynder 23-24)
Over three hundred people showed up for , including forty men. By the time it closed, one hundred had signed their names to the document calling for women’s admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as a citizen of these United States. Now, one hundred and fifty years later, women have made great ...

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