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    The first women's rights convention was held at a tea table in waterloo, New York around July 1848. The Declaration of Sediments is a document that modifies the Declaration of Independence to fit women. The second chapter of Women's Suffrage is titled forming the movement.

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    JackieChacon

    Mr.Robison
    English
    3/3/16
    WomensSuffrage#2
    ThebookthatIamreadingisWomensSuffragebyBrendaStalcup.Ihavealreadyread
    theforeword,introduction,thebriefhistoryoftheWomensSuffrageMovement,andthefirst
    chapter.Alltogether,ithastaken67pagestotalkaboutthestrugglesofwomen,the
    involvementofwomen,andhowtheygotinspired.Thissectionalsoincludedexamplesof
    womenwhotookastand.ThistimeIhavereadchapters2,3,and4.
    Thesecondchapteristitledformingthemovementandthefirstsubsectionistalking
    aboutthefirstwomensrightsconvention.BillSevernexplainsthatSenecaFallsisknownas
    thefirstwomensrightsconvention,butlittleisitknownthatthiswastheconventionthatstarted
    thesparkforwomensrights.Thefirstwomensrightsconventionwasheldbyfivewomenata
    teatableinWaterloo,NewYorkaroundJuly1848.Twoofthemarefamouslyknownfeminist,
    ElizabethStantonandLucretiaMott.Thenextcoupleofpagesteachedmethestruggleof
    Lucretia,forsheandherfamilywereQuakers.Shehadtohidefromherhusbandthefactthat
    shewasattendingawomensrightsconvention.ThisconventionisalsotheplacewhereThe
    SenecaFallsConventionwasplanned.
    TheDeclarationofSedimentsisadocumentthatmodifiestheDeclarationof
    Independencetofitwomen.ElizabethStantonhadtheideatochangetheDeclarationof
    Independencetotheirownbysayingthingslike,allmenandwomenarecreatedequaland
    thehistoryofmankindisahistoryofrepeatedinjuriesandusurpationsonthepartofman
    towardwoman.ElizabeththentookthefinaldraftoftheDeclarationofSedimentstoallofher

    upcomingpublicmeetingsandforumsandreadthemtothewomenwhoattendedthem.
    Elizabeththenmetherbestfriend,SusanB.Anthony,inthespringof1851.Theybothshared
    thesameideasandtheyhadqualitiesthattheotherdidnt.Elizabethhadtheintellectandability
    toorganizeaprotestandconvention,whileSusanwascomparedtoNapoleon,whowasa
    strategistandleadawellarmedarmy.Susanwasbetteratgivingexamplesatpublicforums
    andElizabethdidwellinsummarizingthegeneralideas.
    ThechapterthenmovesontoEarlyAfricanAmericanSuffragists.Thoughtheremore
    africanamericanwomenthanwhitewomen,thenumberofafricanamericanwomenwhowere
    activistswassignificantlylower.Butitwasmorethanjustafricanamericanwomen,therewere
    alsoafricanamericanmaleswhowereactivists.FrederickDouglasswhowasaformerslave
    andanabolitionist,attendedtheSenecaFallsmeeting.Hebecamethefirstmaleofanycolorto
    advocatepubliclyforwomansuffrage.AfricanAmericanparticipationincreasedafterhis
    presenceattheSenecaFallsConvention.
    Chapterthreetalksabouttacticsanddisagreementsandisntverylong.Ittalksabout
    themethodsofElizabethandSusan,andhowtheyplannedtheSenecaFallsConvention.The
    displayedpostersaroundtheentirecitywithhiddencluesthatonlywomenwhohaveheardof
    themovementcouldunderstand.
    ChapterfourisinterestingbecauseitistitledTheAntiSuffragists.Theantiswerevillains
    andenemiesinthesuffragemovement.Manypeopleoftheantisuffragiststhoughtthatwomen
    couldnotbesomethingmoreduetothefactthattheirbrainwascapableofitorthattheirrole
    wastojustreproduce.Someoftheargumentsthatantisuffragistsusedwherethatwomendid
    notwanttherighttovote,theonlyusedthatastheirmaingoalbuttheiractualgoalisto:
    extendtheirpropertyrights,extendtheirmarriagerights,etc.Overtime,theirtacticschallenged

    thesuffragists.Throughouttheentiremovement,therewerebothsuffragists,andanti
    suffragists.
    Ithinkthatallthreechapterswerenicelywrittenwithenoughexamplesofactivists.I
    wouldhavelikedtoknowmoreabouttheirtacticssuchastheirhiddenmessages.Ialsolearned
    somethingnewwiththefactthattherewerewomenwhowereantisuffragists.

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