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Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was a social activist and a leading figure of the early women's rights movement in the United States. Stanton wrote many of the more important documents and speeches of the women's rights movement and was, with her friend Lucretia Mott, the primary organizer of the 1848 Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York. In 1851, Stanton met Susan B. Anthony, with whom she was to remain a close friend and colleague the rest of her life. Together, they founded in 1869 the National Woman's Suffrage Association, an organization dedicated to gaining women the right to vote. Stanton was its first president. They also began the women's rights newsletter The Revolution. Starting in 1881, they published the three-volume History of Woman Suffrage, an anthology of writings about the movement in which they were so prominent.

"The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the same cause, and manifested very much in the same way."

by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

With her husband, Henry Stanton and cousin, Gerrit Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was also active in the anti-slavery Abolitionist movement. Stanton had a strong friendship with abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass. In a view different from many modern activists, Stanton expressed a negative opinion on abortion. She addressed the issue in an 1873 letter to Julia Ward Howe, recorded in Howe's diary at Harvard University Library, and in editions of the newsletter The Revolution. Stanton suggested that solutions to abortion would be found, at least in part, in the elevation and enfranchisement of women. She was also a strong critic of religion in general and Christianity in particular. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York to Daniel Cady and Margaret Livingston Cady. Daniel Cady was a prominent attorney who served a term in Congress and later became a judge. Margaret Livingston was the daughter of Colonel James Livingston, an officer in the Revolutionary War. Stanton died in 1902 and was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York. USS Elizabeth C. Stanton (AP-69), a World War II troop transport, was named for her.

Writings

Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 ISBN 1591020093
The Woman's Bible ISBN 1573926965
Solitude of Self ISBN 1930464010
Declaration of Sentiments

Related Writings

Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony by Geoffrey C. Ward ISBN 037570969X
Women Without Superstition : No Gods - No Masters by Annie Laurie Gaylor, Publisher: FFRF; 1st ed edition (January 1, 1997) ISBN 1877733091
In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Galaxy Books) by Elisabeth Griffith ISBN 0195034406
The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony Reader: Correspondence, Writings, Speeches by Ellen Carol Dubois ISBN 1555531490
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Radical for Women's Rights by Lois W. Banner ISBN 0673393194
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Right Is Ours by Harriet Sigerman ISBN 019511969X

Video

Not for Ourselves Alone - The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony DVD (1999); Director: Ken Burns