40: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention & the Explosion of Social Reform

History That Doesn't Suck

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🗓️ 10 June 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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“In the history of the world, the doctrine of Reform had never such scope as at the present hour.” “Resolved, That woman is man’s equal.” This is the story of social reform. Europe is swept up in calls for reform and greater democracy. France is having another revolution! Those same thoughts are sweeping through the United States, leading to calls for better treatment in prisons, public education, and temperance (cutting back on the alcohol). In this atmosphere of reform, one woman has a particularly radical idea: women's suffrage. Even her colleagues--other women--are hesitant to support her; they fear being mocked! But that won’t stop Elizabeth Cady Stanton from pushing her bold idea at a convention she’s organized in Seneca Falls, New York. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.7	I'm your professor, Greg Jackson, and I'd like to tell you a story.
0:55.0	The Persian crowd screams as they throw rocks through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1:01.1	windows.
1:02.1	They cling to their sticks in iron bars, wanting to get past the fence and guards so
1:06.7	they can exact their vengeance on Grisol.
1:09.6	If they manage to get in this building, they'll be hell to pay.
1:14.8	I know.
1:15.8	This isn't what you were expecting.
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1:19.0	We're in Paris, 1848, where the French feel a great sense of anri toward King Louis
1:24.5	Philippe.
1:25.6	As a moderate constitutional monarchist, that is a king kept in check by a parliament, Louis
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