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The Declaration of Sentiments, also known as the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, is a document signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men at the first women's rights convention organized by women, held at Seneca Falls, New York. Its principal author was Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who modeled the document on the United States Declaration of Independence. Stanton organized the convention together with Lucretia Coffin Mott and Martha Coffin Wright.

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