After our brief class discussion on Elizabeth Cady Stanton, I wanted to dive further into who she was and her work as a suffragette. Born in 1815, her parents raised her to be very educated, which was rare for a woman at that time. Elizabeth attended a local boys school when she was young, and moved on to graduate from Troy Female Seminary School in Troy, New York. She married a man named Henry Brewster Stanton and together they advocated for the abolition of slavery, pre-civil war. It was after women were excluded from an anti-slavery conference in London, that she attempted to attend with her husband, that she became more passionate on the issue of women's rights. Elizabeth was a strong writer, so alongside her close friend Susan B. Anthony, she wrote many speeches for campaigns in favor of women's suffrage. In 1848, Elizabeth and Lucretia Mott organized women's rights conventions in Seneca Falls and Rochester, New York. These conventions called for extensive legal re...