At which 1848 New York event was the Declaration of Sentiments adopted?

The Declaration of Sentiments was adopted at the Seneca Falls Convention in New York in July 1848.

Held on July 19 and 20 at the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, the convention is widely recognized as the first women’s rights convention organized in the United States. Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted the Declaration of Sentiments, modeling its language and structure on the Declaration of Independence.

The document listed grievances against women’s legal and social inequality and asserted that women should have political, civil, and religious rights. Its most controversial resolution called for women’s suffrage. Frederick Douglass, the abolitionist and newspaper editor, supported that resolution during the debate.

About 300 people attended, and 100 signed the declaration: 68 women and 32 men. The gathering did not immediately secure voting rights, but it helped organize the women’s rights movement and inspired later conventions. The Rochester Women’s Rights Convention followed two weeks later, which is why the two events are sometimes confused.