Episode 22: The Seneca Falls Convention | Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Declaration of Sentiments

Creating America · Jun 11, 2026 · 20m · transcript

In this episode of Creating America, we read two foundational items (a speech and a document) that stand at the origins of the American women's rights movement. both from the historic 1848 Seneca Falls Convention.

First, hear Elizabeth Cady Stanton's powerful keynote address calling for equal rights, political representation, and women's suffrage. Then, listen to the full text of the Declaration of Sentiments, the groundbreaking manifesto modeled after the Declaration of Independence that proclaimed that "all men and women are created equal."

The Seneca Falls Convention marked a turning point…