Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an important element of the Women’s Rights Movement, but not
many people know of her significance or contributions because she has been overshadowed by
her long time associate and friend, Susan B. Anthony. However, I feel that she was a woman of
great importance who was the driving force behind the 1848 Convention, played a leadership role
in the women’s rights movement for the next fifty years, and in the words of Henry Thomas,
“She was the architect and author of the movement’s most important strategies ad documents.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in 1815 into an affluent family in Johnstown, New York. Now,
while Stanton was growing up, she tried to imitate her brother’s academic achievements due to
the fact that her parents, Daniel and Mary Livingston Cady, preferred their sons to their
daughters. In trying to copy her male siblings, she got an extraordinary education: she went to
Johnstown Academy and studied Greek and mathematics; she learned how to ride and manage a
horse; she became a skilled debater; and she attended the Troy Female Seminary in New York
where she studies logic, physiology, and natural rights philosophy. However, it wasn’t her
education, but watching her father, who was a judge and lawyer, handle his cases, that cause her
to become involved in various movements because it was in court with her father that she saw
firsthand how women suffered legal discrimination. It was here that she realized that the laws
were unfair and resolved to do whatever she could to change them. She used her unique ability to
draw from wide-ranging sources in legal areas as well as in political and literary areas. With her
knowledge of literature, he created narratives that produced a variety of emotions ranging from
delight to destruction. However, as this was going on, another important even took place. In
1840, Elizabeth married abolitionist organizer a...