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In this post I continue to focus on a woman named Jane Master Hunt. She lived from 1812 - 1889.
On July 19, 1848, people crowded into the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls for the two-day historic event that catapulted the women's rights movement into a national battle for equality. Although the convention was for women, men were not turned away. Therefore, forty-two men became part of the 300-member assembly. James Mott, womens' rights advocate and husband of Lucretia Mott, chaired the event. Both Jane and Richard Hunt attended the Convention.
The Seneca Falls Convention advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil and religious condition and rights of women." For the occasion Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote a Declaration of Sentiments, which she modeled on the Declaration of Independence. to formally assert the equality of men and women and propose resolutions, including female suffrage.
On the first day, Elizabeth read the Declaration of Sentiments to formally assert the equality of men and women and propose resolutions including female suffrage.
On the second day, abolitionist Frederick Douglass made a powerful speech that unified the two causes of abolishing slavery and women's rights. It was also the day that the convention voted on the Declaration of Sentiments. After 68 women and 32 men signed the document making it legitimate, the women's rights movement officially began.
Richard Hunt died in 1856, leaving Jane a wealthy widow, but she remained active in community affairs and gave generously to the town of Waterloo.
Jane died in 1889, while visiting her daughter in Chicago.
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