SENECA FALLS MEETING

It was over a decade after Sojourner Truth's protest that "an independent movement for sexual equality was inaugurated." The celebrated meeting at Seneca Falls was issued by seasoned abolitionists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott." This gathering consisted of approximately 100 men and women in the Finger Lakes district of New York State. "The declaration of sentiments and resolutions drawn up at Seneca Falls, however, forward-looking, was not a fortuitous occurrence." (Ryan, 163)