At this Anti-Slavery Convention, Elizabeth met Lucretia Mott, who became her role model. The British excluded the American women delegates from the convention, including Lucretia Mott. Stanton and Mott resolved that once they return to the United States they would hold a women's rights convention. In 1847 Stanton moved to Seneca Falls. Stanton began to suffer from "mental hunger". Despite raising seven children, Stanton had become the leading feminist philosopher of the first generation of women's rights activists.
Lucretia Mott, Stanton's role model and partner in the first Women's Rights Convention was born on January 3, 1793 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Lucretia was sent to boarding school, at the age of thirteen, ran by the "Society of Friends". The Society of Friends was created by George Fox and was first called Friends of Truth. Eventually Lucretia became a school teacher and this is where her interest in women's rights came about. When Lucretia found that the male teachers at the school got paid twice as much as the female teacher, her interest grew. In 1811, Lucretia married and tens years after that she became a Quaker minister. Both Lucretia and her husband were against slavery and they were active in the American Anti-Slavery Society. .
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Even though the outrage that Stanton and Mott had from the Anti-Slavery Convention, they did not hold the first Women's Rights convention until 1848. On Wednesday July 19th and Thursday July 20th at 10:00 a.m. in Seneca Falls, the first Women's Rights Convention was held. The first day of the meeting was held exclusively for women, while the second day both men and women could attend. A formal list of grievances were made, based on the Declaration of Independence, ranging from inequities in property rights, employment, education, religion, marriage, family, and suffrage. Stanton drew up the Declaration of Sentiments and on July 19th the Declaration of Sentiments was presented to an audience of 300 people, including forty men.