Lucretia Mott's Contribution To The Declaration Of Sentiments
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If you could travel back in time where would you go? Many would say Ancient Greece or The time of the Egyptian Dynasty. But, did you ever really consider how life would be for you? As a woman I know for a fact that life for me would be very different from any male living in the same time period. In Ancient Greece women were not even allowed to leave the house without a male escort. Women were expected to sit in the house, spin wool all day, and try not to eat too much. In Egypt, a woman could not reign as queen unless she had a man behind her to support her. This makes you think of how far we (as women have come). We should be grateful for those who spoke up when we could not find our voice.
Lucretia Mott, MaryAnn McClintock, Martha Wright,…show more content… Stanton was a middle-aged house wife with nearly six children. Her and her husband advocated for many different types of women’s rights, including, parental, custody, property, income, and divorce rights’ find it amazing that in this particular time period Stanton husband was willing support her 100%.
Lucretia Mott was a teacher, a well know Quaker minister, a longtime abolitionist and a highly acclaimed public speaker. She decided to become a women’s right activist when she discovered that male teacher were getting played more than female…show more content… I believe this strongly impacted the overall affect and point of the Declaration of Sentiments. Stanton would use passages and direct quotes from the Declaration of Independence and tweak them to fit her ideals which further impact the point she was trying to make in the Declaration of Sentiments. For example, Thomas Jefferson (quoting from the Declaration of Independence) “We hold truths to be self-evident that all men were created equal” (Kerber, 260). Stanton edited this sentence stating that “All women and men are created equal” (Kerber,