First Woman’s Rights Convention

At the Wesleyan Chapel, the first Woman’s Rights Convention in world history was held on July 19 and 20, 1848. Elizabeth Cady Stanton moved a resolution, seconded by Frederick Douglass, declaring that it was the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise. Some of the signers of the Declaration of Rights were Lucretia Mott, Jacob Chamberlain, Martha C. Wright, Elisha Foote, Amy Post, Charles L. Hoskins, Mary M’Clintock, Richard P. Hunt, Lavinia Latham, Jonathan Metcalf, Mary H. Hallowell, and Henry Seymour.

Seneca Falls, New York · United States