Elizabeth_Cady_Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an important element of the Women’s Rights Movement, but not many people know of her significance or contributions because she has been overshadowed by her long time associate and friend, Susan B. Anthony. However, I feel that she was a woman of great importance who was the driving force behind the 1848 Convention, played a leadership role in the women’s rights movement for the next fifty years, and in the words of Henry Thomas, “She was the architect and author of the movement’s most important strategies ad documents.” Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in 1815 into an affluent family in Johnstown, New York. Now, while Stanton was growing up, she tried to imitate her brother’s academic achievements due to the fact that her parents, Daniel and Mary Livingston Cady, preferred their sons to their daughters. In trying to copy her male siblings, she got an extraordinary education: she went to Johnstown Academy and studied Greek and mathematics; she learned how to ride and manage a horse; she became a skilled debater; and she attended the Troy Female Seminary in New York where she studies logic, physiology, and natural rights philosophy. However, it wasn’t her education, but stanton, women’s, rights, women, suffrage, years, woman, movement, anthony, elizabeth, association, time, next, national, however, even, convention, cady, york, social, president, new, movements, met, legal, laws, important, henry, great, formed, education, bible, believed, began, been, because