Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) called her house at 32 Washington Street, Seneca Falls, "Grassmere" and the "Center of the Rebellion." Here, she helped to fans the flames of the American women's rights movement.
Home to Mary Ann and Thomas M'Clintock, this humble Quaker house was a stop on the Underground Railroad and the birthplace of the Declaration of Sentiments.
Many people who actively supported women’s rights supported the abolition of slavery. Several participants in the 1848 First Women’s Rights Convection in Seneca Falls, New York had already labored in the antislavery movement. The organizers and their families, the Motts, Wrights, Stantons, M’Clintocks, and Hunts, were active abolitionists to a greater or lesser degree. Frederick Douglass, noted abolitionist and former slave, attended and addressed the 1848 convention.
The Women's Rights National Historical Park celebrates the origins and history of the American women's rights movement. In 19th-century Seneca County, New York, advocates for temperance, dress reform and abolitionism were very active.
