The Fight for Women's Suffrage | Created Equal | 1

American History Tellers

Wondery

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, History, Education For Kids

4.7 • 18.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On July 19th, 1848, 300 female and male delegates gathered in a church in Seneca Falls, New York for America’s first women’s rights convention. After two days, 100 of the attendees signed the Declaration of Sentiments, a radical manifesto affirming the equality of men and women. It was the start of the women’s rights revolution.

Over the next two decades, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony built a movement to push for women’s suffrage. They worked side by side with abolitionists, certain their causes were intertwined. But in the years after the Civil War, racial tensions broke apart the decades-old alliance between those fighting for the end of slavery and those fighting for women’s voting rights.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to American History Tellers add free on Amazon Music,
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0:09.6	Imagine it's a sweltering morning in July 1848 in the village of Waterloo in upstate
0:24.1	New York.
0:25.1	You're a farmer's daughter and glovemaker.
0:27.6	You shield your eyes from the rising sun as you creep through a field leading to your
0:31.3	friend Abigail's house.
0:33.1	You look around nervously, fearing you'll be spotted.
0:37.4	You approach the fence that borders the back of Abigail's house and gingerly open the
0:41.5	gate.
0:42.5	Her family keeps their horse in the backyard and the friendly animal trots up to you.
0:47.1	Hey girl, easy.
0:49.5	Now get out of here.
0:52.3	You pat the horse on its backside, urging it to head through the gate and toward the
0:56.0	woods behind the house.
0:58.0	There's a good girl.
1:00.0	As soon as the horse gallops off, you make your way to the side of the house.
1:05.6	You tap on a small glass window, trying to get Abigail's attention.
1:09.8	She gets up from her bed, sees you, and the fleeing horse and smiles.
1:14.0	Robert, the horse got out again.
1:20.1	You duck down behind a bush as Abigail's father runs out the back door to chase the
1:24.2	horse.
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