1848 Seneca Falls Convention

Resources

1. Vindication of the Rights of Women: http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/document.html?doc=1&title.raw=Declaration%20of%20Independence

2. Declaration of Independence: http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/document.html?doc=1&title.raw=Declaration%20of%20Independence

3. Images of the condition of women in the 19th century:

Women’s household work: http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/ic/standard/8.00/8.6_6.00/9507.html
http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/ic/standard/8.00/8.4_4.00/8538.html

Mill work: http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/ic/standard/8.00/8.12_6.00/8313.html

Quakers Second Great Awakening: http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/ic/standard/8.00/8.1_1.00/8174.html

Temperance Movement:
http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/ic/collection/marchand/Temperance_and_Prohibition/Temp_to_1870%5C%27s/3426.html
http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/ic/standard/8.00/8.12_5.00/8555.html

Women’s Clothing:
See digitized Lady Godey’s Book: Godey’s Lady’s Book Edited by Sarah Hoale and Louis A. Godey, July 1848
http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/ic/collection/marchand/Women/Anti_feminist_and_suffrage/2821.html
http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/ic/collection/marchand/Women/Anti_feminist_and_suffrage/2824.html
http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/ic/collection/marchand/Women/Anti_feminist_and_suffrage/2831.html

4. Life of a Woman in the early 1800s resources:

Book: Women's Suffrage in America: An Eyewitness History by Elizabeth Frost and Kathryn Cullen-DuPont
Website: Cult of Domesticity and True Womanhood www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/386/truewoman.html
Video and Website: Not For Ourselves Alone by PBS http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/resources/index.html
Timeline: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawstime.html
Book: Women’s Rights Emerges within the Antislavery Movement 1830-1870: A Brief History with Documents by Karthryn Kish Sklar
Google Book: The Concise History of Woman Suffrage by By Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
http://books.google.com/books?id=hA_8vCoyyjkC&dq=concise+history+of+womans+suffrage&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=LJ7bhMOmme&sig=rD8BgbjUIqQjTL1n8v6jnBzRy_Q&hl=en&ei=ARu3SZCsJZ3etgfg6_i5CQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result

5. News article about the World Anti-Slavery Convention: The London Times Newspaper June 13, 1840, page 7, “General Anti-Slavery Convention” BPL Microtext

6. Website announcement of Seneca Falls Convention found at Votes For Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/nawbib:@field(TITLE+@od1(The+first+convention+ever+called+to+discuss+the+civil+and+political+rights+of+women+))

7. National Parks Service website for the Seneca Falls Convention:
http://www.nps.gov/wori/index.htm

8. American Treasures of the Library of Congress: Seneca Falls Convention:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr040.html

9. Political Cartoons reflecting the views of women from the University of California and the Library of Congress American Memory site:
http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/ic/standard/8.00/8.6_6.00/9609.html
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/rbc/rbnawsa/n7140/n7140r.jpg

10. Slavery And "The Woman Question": Lucretia Mott's Diary of Her Visit to Great Britain to Attend the World's Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840:
http://www.assumption.edu/whw/old/Mott_diary_1840.html

11. The Lucretia Coffin Mott Papers Project: http://mott.pomona.edu/

12. From Wollstonecraft to Mill: What British and European Ideas and Social Movements
Influenced the Emergence of Feminism in the Atlantic World, 1792-1869:
http://womhist.alexanderstreet.com/awrm/doclist.htm

13. Graphic organizer worksheets