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ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

      Elizabeth Cady Stanton lived from 1815-1902. She was among the nineteenth century's most dominant women who fought for social equality of women. In 1848, she and others, including the well-known Susan B. Anthony, organized the first national woman's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Stanton always stated that, as men's equals, women of all races should be treated as such in law and in political participation. Stanton also explored how true equality would transform interpersonal relations and pervasive cultural norms. She tried to spread her standpoint to men and women nationally.

     Born on 12 November 1815 in Johnstown, New York, Stanton was the daughter of Margaret Livingston and Daniel Cady, one of the town's most prominent citizens. She received her formal education at the Johnstown Academy and at Emma Willard's Troy Female Seminary. She also acquired a considerable informal legal education from her father, who trained many of New York's lawyers.

     Stanton had an early introduction to the reform movements, including encounters as a young woman with fugitive slaves at the home of her cousin Gerrit Smith. It was at Smith's home that she also met her husband Henry Stanton. Soon after their marriage in 1840 they traveled to London, where Henry Stanton was a delegate to the World Anti-Slavery Convention. There she met  Lucretia Mott, the Quaker teacher who served in many of the associated Temperance, Anti-Slavery, and Women's Rights organizations with which Stanton is associated. Denied her seat at the convention, as were all the women delegates, Mott discussed with Stanton the need for a convention on women's rights. The plan came to fruition when Mott again encountered Stanton in the summer of 1848 in the home of fellow Quaker Jane Hunt. After a month of missionary work on the Cattaraugus Reservation of the Seneca Nation, James and Lucretia Mott were attending the annual meeting of the Religious Society of Friends at Junius, near Seneca Falls, and staying at nearby Auburn with Lucretia Mott's sister, Martha Coffin Wright.

     Her marriage to the antislavery orator Henry B. Stanton in 1840 introduced her to the most advanced circles of reform as well as to motherhood and domestic life. She gave birth to seven children between 1842 and 1859. Although rearing her five sons and two daughters limited her early activism, Stanton managed during their childhood to polish her gifts as a writer, exerting great influence over the antebellum woman's rights movement even though she rarely attended its meetings.

     Stanton met Susan B. Anthony in 1851, and their remarkable collaboration began at once. As a single woman Anthony was free to travel and earn her living from her reform work, providing Stanton with more active ways to educate and agitate for her reforms.  Anthony, it turned out, was...

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