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Creating a Legend
The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) traced the origins of the suffrage movement to a meeting between Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1840. Excluded from an abolition meeting attended by their husbands, the new friends discussed the legal and cultural restrictions on women. Their talk led to the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments, drafted largely by Stanton, which included a demand for enfranchisement. |