Two of the primary organizers, Elizabeth Stanton and Lucrettia Mott, "First met in London in 1840, where they were attending the World Anti-Slavery Convention with their husbands. When the convention excluded women delegates solely based on their sex, the pair resolved to hold a women’s rights convention."
~ Courtesy of History.com Editors. "Seneca Falls Convention"
Courtesy of Worthen, Meredith. “The Women's Rights Movement and the Women of Seneca Falls.”
The Seneca Falls Convention took place on July 19th and 20th of 1848 and held about 300 guests. Most of the guests present lived in Seneca Falls and played a role in the abolition movement.
Elizabeth Stanton started the convention with an introduction speech, “We are assembled to protest against a form of government, existing without the consent of the governed—to declare our right to be free as man is free, to be represented in the government which we are taxed to support, to have such disgraceful laws as give man the power to chastise and imprison his wife, to take the wages which she earns, the property which she inherits, and, in case of separation, the children of her love.”
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Courtesy of "Not for ourselves alone: The story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony."