LAD #9- Seneca Falls Declaration

The reason for this Declaration by the women at the Seneca Falls Convention wrote was to explain why they were protesting. They believed that they had been wronged and their rights suppressed, and that it was their duty to rise up and seek equal suffrage. Then, they listed rights that had been prevented to them by men: women couldn't vote; they had to follow rules which they had no part in making; they didn't even have as many rights as foreign or uneducated men; and they had no rights of property if married. The list went on: their husbands were their masters; if they divorced, all property went to the men; they had few job opportunities and were not well paid; and they had no opportunity to go to college. They also complained that they had no rights in the Church and, lastly, that men had ruined women's confidence and self-respect. All of these injustices led these women to come up with resolutions to change society's problems. They decided that women were equal to men, and all laws that prevented this equality were nullified. Women should be educated so they are not ignorant to the injustices of society. It is the duty of men to help and teach women and give them religious equality. Men must be forced to behave the same proper way as women. Women should enlarge the bounds of their rights, gain the right to vote, and have equal rights. The women at Seneca Falls decreed that all women no longer had to put up with these injustices