By: Kylie Fung
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was both an abolitionist and a women’s right activist, feminist, editor, and writer. Her writing, Declaration of Sentiments, gave a revolutionary call to all women across the country. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born on November 12, 1815 in Johnstown, New York. After she graduated from the Emma Willard’s Troy Female Seminary in 1832, she started to get interested in abolitionist, temperance, and women's rights movements from her reformer cousin, Gerrit Smith. She married Henry Stanton, who was a reformer. Together, they attended the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London where Elizabeth Cady Stanton joined other women who hated being excluded from men. Elizabeth