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The Seneca Falls Convention
1848 saw revolution sweep across Europe and the first convention for women’s rights – the Seneca Falls Convention – in the United States. Reformers Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton first planned a convention in 1840, after both women had been refused seats as delegates to the World Antislavery Convention in London. Various things intervened (including...