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12 Resolutions of the Seneca Falls Convention

The 12 resolutions at the Seneca Falls Convention, "Demanded women be regarded as men’s equal. The resolutions called on Americans to regard any laws that placed women in an inferior position to men as having “no force or authority.” They resolved for women to have equal rights within the church and equal access to jobs."

~ Courtesy of History.com Editors. "Seneca Falls Convention."

Courtesy of "Not for ourselves alone: The story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony."

Frederick Douglas was an important figure at the convention because he helped influence the adoption of the ninth resolution, full enfranchisement for women.

Although the original contexts of his speech are undocumented, a similar argument was published in his newspaper, the North Star, a few days after the convention which read the following, "All that distinguishes man as intelligent and accountable being is equally true of woman; and if that government only is just which governs by the free consent of the governed, there can be no reason in the world for denying to woman the exercise of the elective franchise, or a hand in making and administering the laws of the land. Our doctrine is that “right is of no sex. "
~ Frederick Douglass