The organizers of the 1848 Seneca falls Women’s Rights Convention were Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Stanton lived with her family in Seneca Falls, although she found it quite difficult and rather lonely. Lucretia mott on the other hand was already a well-known abolitionist and reformer. Both women had long been active within the antislavery cause and so they began gathering with women. The convention generated a major amount of negativity, more than they ever expected. One of their main speakers during the movement was abolitionist Frederick Douglass, he spoke in favor of the declaration - so much that he signed it. Many of the members were abolitionists first who then added women’s rights to their concerns, because they saw the
