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=== The Seneca Falls Convention ===
{{See also|Seneca Falls Convention}}The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 was the first women’s rights conference in the United States.  Held at the [[Wesleyan Methodist Church (Seneca Falls, New York)|Wesleyan Methodist Church]] in [[Seneca Falls (CDP), New York|Seneca Falls]], New York, it was predominantly organised by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, with the assistance of Lucretia Mott and local female [[Quakers]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wellman |first=Judith |title=The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's Rights Convention |publisher=University of Illinois Press |year=2004 |location=Chicago, IL |pages=184–191}}</ref>  Despite the relative inexperience of the organisers, the event attracted approximately 300 attendees, including around 40 men.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wellman |first=Judith |title=The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's Rights Convention |publisher=University of Illinois Press |year=2004 |location=Chicago, IL |pages=192–196}}</ref>  Among the dignitaries was the legendary slavery abolitionist [[Frederick Douglass]], who argued eloquently for the inclusion of suffrage in the convention’s agenda.<blockquote>''“Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.”''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Douglass |first=Frederick |title=In the Words of Frederick Douglass: Quotations from Liberty's Champion |publisher=Cornell University Press |year=2012 |editor-last=McKivigan |editor-first=John R |location=Ithaca, NY |editor-last2=Kaufman |editor-first2=Heather L}}</ref></blockquote>Over two days, the attendees heard addresses from speakers including Stanton and Mott, voted on a number of resolutions and deliberated on the text of the Declaration.  At the conclusion of the convention, the completed Declaration was signed by over 100 attendees, including 68 women and 32 men.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wellman |first=Judith |title=The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's Rights Convention |publisher=University of Illinois Press |year=2004 |location=Chicago, IL |pages=196–202}}</ref><!--EDIT BELOW THIS LINE-->