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Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls

Author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton Year: 1848 Length: 337 characters Difficulty: medium Public domain

The clauses repeat in the same shape, so the hands settle into a rhythm while the semicolon comes back again and again.

We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton read this declaration at the convention in Seneca Falls, New York, on 19 July 1848. She built it on the shape of the Declaration of Independence so that the demand for equal rights would sound familiar to any reader. About three hundred people came, and one hundred signed the document, sixty eight women and thirty two men. Frederick Douglass spoke in support of the resolution on the vote.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton read this declaration at the convention in Seneca Falls, New York, on 19 July 1848. She built it on the shape of the Declaration of Independence so that the demand for equal rights would sound familiar to any reader. About three hundred people came, and one hundred signed the document, sixty eight women and thirty two men. Frederick Douglass spoke in support of the resolution on the vote.

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The clauses repeat in the same shape, so the hands settle into a rhythm while the semicolon comes back again and again.

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