Document · United States · 1848
Pass it on
The Declaration of Sentiments
66Worth an evening.
They rewrote the Declaration for women, and the vote did not come that century.
The review
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the others took the Declaration of Independence and rewrote it so women were in it. The injuries are plain: no vote, no property in marriage, no equal work. I can read that list without dressing it up. It is an argument from a meeting, not a statute. Nobody in that room got the franchise from the paper itself.
The vote they asked for did not come in their century. That is the part I would not skip just because the meeting sounds brave. A house can still read it. Marriage, in the list, is a place where a woman's property disappeared. Work is on the list because equal work was refused. I don't need a speech about progress after. The paper asks, and the century says not yet.
Journal
Keep The Declaration of Sentiments in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 66. Yours can differ.
The glance
Temperance is the thin one.
Is appetite shown and then put down, or are you being trained to want the next one?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 7Industry
No equal work is one of the injuries they wrote down.
- 8Household
Marriage, on their list, took a woman's property from her.
- 6Piety
They used the old Declaration as a conscience that had skipped women.
- 7Courage
They signed a claim the law of 1848 did not grant.
- 8Republic
They asked for the vote, and the paper itself was not a statute.
- 4Temperance
A written list of injuries, not a story about wanting more.
- 8Truth
The injuries are named, and so is the vote that missed their century.
- 5Stewardship
They left an argument; the franchise did not arrive in their century.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
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