1. Leaders of the Women’s Rights Movement

2. Why did people oppose woman suffrage?

3. Angelina Grimke Daughter of slaveholding judge in Charleston
Disliked slavery
She and her sister were first women to publicly speak out as abolitionists

4. Sarah Grimke “All I ask our brethren is that they will take their heels from our necks and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy.”
Criticized for urging all women to speak out against slavery
Began to campaign for women’s rights

5. Lucretia Mott Founded Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society
Quaker preacher

6. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Involved in anti-slavery movement
Married to an anti-slavery agent
Mother of seven children
Met Lucretia Mott at World Anti-Slavery Convention

7. Mott and Stanton Reunited in 1848
* Call for a convention to:
“discuss the social, civil and religious condition and rights of women.”
Organized in five days and held in Seneca Falls, NY
300 people attended (40 men)

8. Elizabeth Cady Stanton AGAIN!
Driving force behind Seneca Falls Convention
Wrote the Declaration of Sentiments
Worked for women’s rights until her death in 1902