5 years later in the
Chapel the 1st Women’s Rights Convention held, run by female abolitionists
launch-ing the drive for women suffrage (voting rights). Rhoda Bement was
among subscribers. That era’s leading Black advocate Frederick Douglass
spoke, invited by Rhoda’s co-chairperson of anti-slavery fund-raiser Elizbth
M’Clintock. His statue stands in Seneca Falls site center. |
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