Stanton, "Educated Suffrage Again", January 2, 1895, as reprinted in Gordon, Selected Works, Vol. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a mentor for many women, training them on effectively advocating for a cause. The NWSA initially worked on a wider range of women's issues than the AWSA, including divorce reform and equal pay for women. [98] Stanton provided hospitality for some of the attendees at this convention. [187] Ken Burns, Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a brilliant activist-intellectual. Anthony, who was five years younger than Stanton, came from a Quaker family that was active in reform movements. She wrote to a friend that, "Lucy & Susan alike see suffrage only. One of the speakers was Stanton's daughter, Harriot Stanton Blatch, who insisted on paying tribute to her mother's role. [19] She was remembered by her daughter Margaret as being "cheerful, sunny and indulgent". [161] The rivalry between the two organizations remained bitter, however, as the AWSA began to decline in strength during the 1880s. Anthony handled the production details and the correspondence with contributors. "[59], At the organization's convention the following year, conservatives voted Stanton out as president, whereupon she and Anthony resigned from the organization. The “Declaration of Sentiments” that the men and women at the convention presented and signed called for women to be given the same rights as men. That nearly all of her ideas—that women are entitled to seek an education, to own property, to get a divorce, and to vote—are now commonplace is in large part because she worked tirelessly to extend the nation's promise of radical individualism to women. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American social activist, abolitionist, and an important figure in the women's rights movement. The negro's skin and the woman's sex are both prima facie evidence that they were intended to be in subjection to the white Saxon man. [90] In 1885, just before his 80th birthday, he published a short autobiography called Random Recollections. The other, whose leading figures were Stanton and Anthony, insisted that all women and all African Americans should be enfranchised at the same time and worked toward a women's movement that would no longer be tied to the Republican Party or be financially dependent on abolitionists. [136] In 1880, Stanton also tried to vote. [89] The League indirectly advanced the cause of women's rights in several ways. In her speech at the 1890 unity convention that established the NAWSA, Stanton said, "I hope this convention will declare that the Woman Suffrage Association is opposed to all Union of Church and State and pledges itself … to maintain the secular nature of our government. [41], When the first National Women's Rights Convention was organized in 1850, Stanton was unable to attend because she was pregnant. [170], In the Declaration of Sentiments written for the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, Stanton listed a series of grievances against males who, among other things, excluded women from the ministry and other leading roles in religion. [26], Lucretia Mott, a Quaker minister, abolitionist and women's rights advocate, was one of the women who had been sent as a delegate. Forward Into Light: How Women Are Reshaping Politics and Power, We’ll never share your email with anyone else, Author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the woman’s rights and suffrage movements, Elizabeth Cady Stanton formulated the agenda for woman’s rights that guided the struggle well into the 20, While on her honeymoon in London to attend a World’s Anti-Slavery convention, Stanton met abolitionist, Although Stanton remained committed to efforts to gain property rights for married women and ending slavery, the women’s suffrage movement increasingly became her top priority. [96] Stanton later teased Anthony, saying, "Well, as all women are supposed to be under the thumb of some man, I prefer a tyrant of my own sex, so I shall not deny the patent fact of my subjection. [74], Stanton had already antagonized traditionalists in 1852 at the women's temperance convention by advocating a woman's right to divorce a drunken husband. 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