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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, An excerpt from the Declaration of Sentiments, Woman's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls and Rochester, N.Y., July and August 1848
Elizabeth Cady Stanton's speech is read by Mona Seghatoleslami: