Americans who Tell THE TRUTH

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton BiographyReformer, Writer, Lecturer, 1815-1902

“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”

Elizabeth Cady was born in Johnstown, New York, into the privileged life of a judge’s family. At eighteen she graduated from Troy Female Seminary and soon entered the world of social reform through her cousin, Gerrit Smith, who was actively helping fugitive slaves escape to Canada. At his home she met the journalist and abolitionist Henry Brewster Stanton and married him in 1840. When Elizabeth accompanied her husband to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, she encountered the women’s suffrage leader, Lucretia Mott, and shared her indignation at the convention’s refusal to seat women delegates. Extending the rights of women became the focus of her public life. An organizer of the first women’s rights convention in the United States in Seneca Falls, New York (1848), she drafted the women’s bill of rights, insisting on the inclusion of the right to vote.Her long association with Susan B. Anthony began three years later and together the gifted writer and speaker (Stanton) and the dynamic organizer (Anthony) led the movement for equality ......

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