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Many female abolitionists joined the | women's rights crusade |
Margaret Fuller | "there exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as towards slaves." |
Sarah Grimke | "all I ask . . . is that men will take their feet from off our necks and permit us to satnd upright." |
World Anti-slavery Convention London 1840 | refused to allow women to join the discussion |
Seneca Falls Convention | proclaimed that "all men and women are created equal." |
The beginning of the oganized women's movement | Seneca Falls Convention |
Lucretia Coffin Mott | Seneca Falls participant who feared women's rights moved to quickly |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | demanded women's right to vote at the Seneca Falls Convention |
Lucy Stone | the morning star of the women's right movement |
Susan B. Anthony | President of the American Woman Suffrage Association |
Asked to write a graduation speech but refused the right to give it | Lucy Stone |
Amelia Jenks Bloomer | developed loose trousers for women to wear 1850s |