Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815)

Stanton was an American reformer and a leader of the women’s suffrage movement. In 1840, she married abolitionist Henry Brewster Stanton, and they attended the World’s Anti-Slavery Convention in London, where she joined Lucretia Mott in objecting to their exclusion from the assembly. A proponent of legal, political, and industrial equality for women, she later joined forces with Susan B. Anthony in the women’s suffrage movement. What one word did Stanton famously omit from her marriage vows? Discuss

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