EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN EARLY 1800: MARY ANN WILSON MCCLINTOCK P/47

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In this story I continue to focus on a woman named Mary Ann Wilson McClintock. She lived from 1800 - 1884. She was one of five women who joined Jane Hunt for tea at her Waterloo home, including Lucretia Mott, Martha Wright and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The women expressed their discontent with their place in American society and decided to hold a Women's Rights Convention. This was to be held in Seneca Falls, New York.

She hosted a second planned meeting at her house on July 16, when she, two of her daughters, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted a document called the Declaration of Sentiments. Modeled on the Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson seventy-two years earlier, this document proclaimed that "all men and women are created equal."

The Declaration of Sentiments would be ratified on the seond day of the First Woman's Rights Convention and signed by one hundred attendees: sixty-eight women and thirty-two men. As one of the first statements of the political and social repression of American women, Sentiments met with significant hostility and marked the beginning of the women's rights movement in the United States.

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