Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, the leaders of the Seneca Falls Convention.
This declaration goes into detail on the rights men have received in the past that women have not, and explains that the cause of emancipation should give rights not only to current/former slaves, but women as well. It reads similarly to the Declaration of Independence, since it outlines the "repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman," like the American colonists listed their grievances with the British, and taking its entire first clause from the Declaration of Independence's preamble, with the only change being "all men are created equal" becoming "all men and women are created equal." Some of the Seneca Falls grievances include: withholding from women the right to vote, thereby subjecting them to laws they had no say in, treating married women as "civilly dead," and preventing them from owning property. This Declaration also includes many resolutions that might address the previously outlined grievances.
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