On Thursday, July 20, 1848, at the morning session on the second day of the First Women's Rights Convention, sixty-eight women signed the Declaration of Sentiments under the heading, "Firmly relying upon the final triumph of the Right and the True, we do this day affix our signatures to this declaration.
Thirty-two men signed the Declaration of Sentiments under the heading "...the gentlemen present in favor of this new movement:
Richard P. Hunt
Samuel D. Tillman
Justin Williams
Elisha Foote Frederick Douglass
Henry W. Seymour
Henry Seymour
David Salding
William G. Barker
Elias J. Doty
James Jones William S. Dell James Mott
William Burroughs
Robert Smalldridge
Jacob Matthews
Charles L. Hoskins Thomas M'Clintock
Saron Phillips Jacob Chamberlain
Jonathan Metcalf
Nathan J. Milliken
S.E. Woodworth
Edward F. Underhill George W. Pryor
Joel Bunker
Isaac Van Tassel Thomas Dell
E.W. Capron
Stephen Shear
Henry Hatley
Azaliah Schooley"
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Did you know that before Susan B. Anthony campaigned for woman's suffrage, her good friend Elizabeth Cady Stanton spearheaded the First Women's Rights Convention in America?
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