copy of "Declaration of Sentiments" to be auctioned...

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Rare copy of speech that launched the women's suffrage movement to be auctioned (Nov. 30)


November 8, 2005, 3:37 PM EST

NEW YORK -- A rare copy of the speech that the pioneering feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton delivered at the 1848 convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y., launching the women's suffrage movement, will be auctioned on Nov. 30, Sotheby's announced Tuesday.

The speech, titled "Declaration of Sentiments," was modeled on the Declaration of Independence and asserted, "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal."

The Declaration of Sentiments was signed by 68 women and 32 men at the convention and is considered the founding document of the suffrage movement that resulted in American women being granted the right to vote in 1920.

Sotheby's said that only four copies of the document have been recorded in American institutions, making this one presumably the only one available for private ownership.

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