In July 1848, more than three hundred men and women assembled in Seneca Falls, New York, for the first women’s rights convention, at which Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s (1815–1902) famous Declaration of Sentiments was read and adopted. Modeled after the Declaration of Independence, Stanton’s document protested women’s inferior legal status and put forward a list of proposals for the moral, economic, and political equality of women. The most radical resolution was the demand for woman suffrage, a goal that would consume the women’s movement for more than seventy years.