Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an important element of the Women's Rights Movement, but not .
many people know of her significance or contributions because she has been overshadowed by .
her long time associate and friend, Susan B. Anthony. However, I feel that she was a woman of .
great importance who was the driving force behind the 1848 Convention, played a leadership role .
in the women's rights movement for the next fifty years, and in the words of Henry Thomas, .
"She was the architect and author of the movement's most important strategies ad documents." .
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in 1815 into an affluent family in Johnstown, New York. Now, .
while Stanton was growing up, she tried to imitate her brother's academic achievements due to .
the fact that her parents, Daniel and Mary Livingston Cady, preferred their sons to their .
daughters. In trying to copy her male siblings, she got an extraordinary education: she went to .
Johnstown Academy and studied Greek and mathematics; she learned how to ride and manage a .
horse; she became a skilled debater; and she attended the Troy Female Seminary in New York .
where she studies logic, physiology, and natural rights philosophy. However, it wasn't her .
education, but watching her father, who was a judge and lawyer, handle his cases, that cause her .
to become involved in various movements because it was in court with her father that she saw .
firsthand how women suffered legal discrimination. It was here that she realized that the laws .
were unfair and resolved to do whatever she could to change them. She used her unique ability to .
draw from wide-ranging sources in legal areas as well as in political and literary areas. With her .
knowledge of literature, he created narratives that produced a variety of emotions ranging from .
delight to destruction. However, as this was going on, another important even took place. In .
1840, Elizabeth married abolitionist organizer and journalist, Henry Stanton.
