What is the Seneca Falls Declaration, and when was it written?
It is a declaration of women’s rights and history, modelled after the Declaration of Independence. It was written in 1848 at the Seneca Falls Conference, which was the first conference in America to specifically address women’s rights. The full text of the Declaration of Sentiments (also known as the Seneca Falls Declaration) is as follows: The Declaration of Sentiments When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to such a course. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secu
