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. |
Contents
CHAPTER ONE I | 1 |
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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