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Discover your perfect day in a park at find your park.com. On July, on

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on July 11, 1848, a local newspaper ran an advertisement announcing a meeting that would

happen a week later at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, a meeting that would forever

change the course of American history, the first American Women's Rights Convention.

Today on America's National Parks, the Women's Rights National Historical Park, in Seneca Falls, New York.

Despite the minimal publicity, an estimated 300 attendees filled co-organizer Elizabeth

Katie Stanton's event. Stanton made her first public speech on the initial day of the Convention and read aloud the Declaration of Sentiments, which was then discussed at length.

The Declaration of Sentiments was modeled after the Declaration of Independence,

but with the goal of granting women the rights and freedoms that Thomas Jefferson's words granted

men. Stanton quickly became a leader in the crusade for women's rights, as well as for the abolition of slavery.

She met Susan B. Anthony, wrote articles on divorce, property rights, and temperance.

By 1852, she and Anthony on divorce, property rights, and temperance.

By 1852, she and Anthony were refining techniques for her to write speeches that Anthony would deliver.

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