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Elizabeth
Cady Stanton

1815  —  1902
Historical Archive  ·  Portrait Study
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Johnstown, New York, 1815  ·  New York City, 1902

She wrote the Declaration of Sentiments in 1848, modeled it on Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, and spent the next fifty years arguing with the movement she founded about how radical to be. The answer, in her judgment, was always: more radical.

Eighty Years and More (1898). The Woman's Bible (1895). She co-founded the suffrage movement with Susan B. Anthony, drove it harder than anyone, and was more radical on divorce, religion, and women's autonomy than the movement could comfortably follow. She was right about almost everything — usually a generation too early.

She died in 1902. The Nineteenth Amendment she initiated was ratified in 1920. She never voted.

Consultation

The author of the
Declaration of Sentiments.

Stanton speaks from 2,000+ chunks across three works — Eighty Years and More, The Woman's Bible, and History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I.

Her discourse holds Mill's Subjection of Women and Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman — her two most important predecessors in the feminist tradition.

Ask her about the Fourteenth Amendment and what she did that she regretted. Ask her about The Woman's Bible and why her own movement condemned it. Ask her about Susan B. Anthony and what they were actually fighting about. Ask her what she would make of 2026.

Declaration of Sentiments Women's Suffrage The Woman's Bible Seneca Falls Stanton and Anthony Feminist Political Theory Marriage and Divorce Law Religious Patriarchy The Fourteenth Amendment Radicalism and Tactics
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
Declaration of Sentiments  ·  Seneca Falls Convention  ·  July 19, 1848

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