How does the perspective of Henry Stanton differ in the two accounts of the World Anti-Slavery Convention?
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It was not only speaking in public that led activist women to question their second-class status. As the next two documents show, sometimes the attempt to do something as simple as attending a meeting could raise women's ire and consciousness about their place in American life.
The document below describes the experiences of a group of outspoken and committed female abolitionists, including Lucretia Mott, a well-known Quaker activist, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the newly wed wife of anti-slavery advocate Henry Stanton and a committed abolitionist in her own right. In June 1840, Mott and Stanton traveled as part of a larger group of women to London, England, to participate as delegates from the United States in the World's Anti-Slavery Convention. When they arrived, they discovered to their dismay that the Convention's organizers neither welcomed their presence nor their involvement. Some male leaders argued that mixed-sex meetings went against British custom. Others insisted that women's involvement in politics was un-Christian, invoking the kinds of arguments used by Massachusetts clergy against the Grimké sisters. After considerable debate, organizers told the women that they could sit quietly in a separate women-only section curtained off from the main convention hall where they could listen to — but not participate in — the convention's proceedings.
Henry Stanton was a social reformer and a well-appraised abolitionist lecturer.
He was one of the members of New York Anti-Slavery Society.
However, he was believed that slavery is a moral issue but later on he could realize that slavery as an illegal convention should be abolished by consciousness and legal political movement, accordingly, he acted in World Anti-Slavery Convention.