A Special Friendship
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott were two women with different backgrounds but a shared drive to fight for all people. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in 1815 and received a formal education, which was unusual for a woman at that time. After graduation, she was sorely disappointed to encounter social barriers which prevented her from working in the same positions as her male classmates. She began to fight for women's rights and for the end of slavery.
Lucretia Mott was born in 1793 and became a Quaker minister in 1821. Mott was well known for her speeches and work as an abolitionist. She helped to organize a convention of American women who were against slavery in 1837.
The two women met in London in 1840 at the World Anti-Slavery Convention where Stanton with her husband and Mott was sent as a delegate. Both women were disappointed to learn that the male delegates decided that women could not attend the convention. At this time, they decided to work together to fight for the rights of women. This was the beginning of a friendship that would help change the lives of women in the United States forever. In 1848, Stanton and Mott organized the first women's rights convention.
Who were Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott?
How did the World Ant-Slavery Convention affect the women's rights movement?
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