Returning to Seneca Falls: The First Woman's Rights Convention & Its Meaning for Men & Women TodayIn 1848 the first Women's Rights convention took place in Seneca falls, New York, convened by the suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton. At the convention, a black man, Frederick Douglass, was the only man to speak in support of Stanton. This books tells the story of Stanton and Douglass, and of their form of democracy, striving for individual responsibility, freed from prejudice and the politics of race and gender. Mythologizing history mingled with autobiography, confession, social reflection and psychology, the author describes his vision of a new kind of humanity for the future. |
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Contents
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CHAPTER THREE | 14 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 36 |
CHAPTER SIX | 51 |
CHAPTER EIGHT | 73 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN | 91 |
The New Landscape | 109 |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN | 124 |
CHAPTER FIFTEEN | 138 |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN | 158 |
APPENDIX THREE | 172 |
APPENDIX FIVE | 190 |
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Page 167 - By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband: under whose wing, protection, and cover she performs everything.
Page 163 - to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of those who suffer from it to refuse allegiance to it, and to insist upon the institution of a new government, laying its foundation on
Page 68 - Deep-rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained; new provocations; the real distinctions which nature has made; and many other circumstances, will divide us into parties, and produce convulsions, which will probably never end
Page 163 - requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to such a course. We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed
Page 67 - I advance it... as a suspicion only, that the blacks. whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowment both of body and mind
Page 163 - Adopted by the Seneca Falls Convention July 19-20,1848 When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which
Page 169 - be used, and in any assemblies proper to be held; and this being a self-evident truth growing out of the divinely implanted principles of human nature, any custom or authority adverse to it, whether modern or wearing the hoary sanction of antiquity, is to be regarded as self-evident falsehood, and at war with mankind.
Page 59 - be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. . . . The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Page 68 - It will probably be asked, why not retain and incorporate the blacks into the State? Deep-rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained; new provocations; the real distinctions which nature has made; and many other circumstances, will divide us into parties, and produce convulsions, which will probably never end