The first women's rights
             convention had taken place in Seneca Falls, New York, in
             July of 1848. The declaration that emerged was modeled after
             the Declaration of Independence. Written by Elizabeth Cady
             Stanton, it claimed that "all men and women are created
             equal" and that "the history of mankind is a history of
             repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward
             woman" (Harper, 1993, vol. 1). Following a long list of
             grievances were resolutions for equitable laws, equal
             educational and job opportunities, and the right to vote.
             One year later in 1849, Susan B. Anthony gave her first
             public speech for the "Daugters of Temperance" and then
             helped to found the Woman's State Temperance Society of New
             York, one of the first such organizations of its time.
             In 1851, she went to Syracuse to attend a series of
             anti-slavery meetings. During this time Susan met Elizabeth
             Stanton in person, became fast friends, and
             subsequently joined her and another woman named Amelia
             Bloomer in campaigns for women's rights. In 1854, she
             devoted herself to the anti-slavery movement serving from
             1856 to the outbreak of the civil war in 1861. Here, Susan
             B. Anthony served as an agent for the American Anti-slavery
             Society. Afterwards, she collaborated with Stanton and
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