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By Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.
- Source
- Declaration of Sentiments, in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 1, July 19, 1848 · Declaration of Sentiments, p. 70
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- Internet Archive (University of Toronto scan of History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 1, Rochester: Susan B. Anthony)
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From the Declaration of Sentiments, adopted by the Seneca Falls Convention, July 19–20, 1848, and drafted mainly by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. This is the text as printed in the History of Woman Suffrage, which Stanton co-edited with Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage.