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During the summer of 1848, abolitionist Lucretia Mott left her home in Philadelphia and headed for upstate New York to attend a Quaker meeting and visit her pregnant sister, Martha Coffin Wright.

On July 17-19, this Seneca County community will host Convention Days to commemorate the 178th anniversary of the writing of the Declaration of Sentiments and 1848 Women’s ...

DENVER — The oldest known original printed copy of the Declaration of Sentiments — the foundational document of the American women’s suffrage movement — is now on display at the Center for Colorado ...