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184819–20 July 1848 · Seneca Falls, New York

Seneca Falls Convention

The brick Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, where the 1848 Women's Rights Convention met
Photo: National Park Service. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott and three other women called the first women's rights convention in the United States, held in the Wesleyan Chapel at Seneca Falls, New York. About 300 people came, and 100 women and men signed a Declaration of Sentiments modelled on the Declaration of Independence. Its demand for women's right to vote, backed by Frederick Douglass, was the most disputed resolution.

Sites

  1. Site 1: Wesleyan Chapel, Women's Rights National Historical ParkSurviving walls of the chapel beside the park's visitor centre.Map ↗
  2. Site 2: Elizabeth Cady Stanton HouseStanton's family home in Seneca Falls, where she raised seven children.Map ↗
  3. Site 3: M'Clintock House, WaterlooHouse where the Declaration of Sentiments was drafted.Map ↗

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