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Woman Suffrage: women struggle for the right to vote. Documents and other resources on the sources of the woman suffrage movement, before the 1848 Seneca Falls convention for women's rights.
Lucretia Mott
Biography of Lucretia Mott, Quaker minister, whose conversations with Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the World's Anti-Slavery Convention, 1840, led to organizing the 1848 Seneca Falls convention.
Lucretia Mott Quotes
Quotes by Lucretia Mott - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.
About Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucretia, whose conversations with Lucretia Mott at the World's Anti-Slavery Convention, 1840, led to organizing the 1848 Seneca Falls convention.
About Mary Wollstonecraft
Wollstonecraft's 18th century feminist writings was a source of inspiration for the 19th century feminist movement.
Gage, Matilda Joslyn: Preceding Causes
In 1881, Gage reflected on the causes leading up to the 1848 Seneca Falls convention.
World's Anti-Slavery Convention, June 1840
At this convention, several women were denied the right to speak, leading them to organize a woman's rights convention in the United States in 1848.

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