Three hundred people filled Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, on July 19, 1848. They were there to attend the first women’s rights convention. With a handful of female friends, Elizabeth Cady Stanton had organized the convention and had drafted a Declaration of Sentiments. The declaration called for an end to the false claim that women were inferior to men as well as changes in laws oppressing women. It demanded educational opportunities for women. It listed women’s suffrage—the right to vote—as one of the demands.
Among the 32 men who attended the
