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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.

Women have made significant strides towards equality in the United States, but room for progress still remains.

In 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized a convention at Seneca Falls, New York, for a discussion of the current social, civil, and religious conditions, and equal rights for women.

The oldest known original printed copy of the "Declaration of Sentiments" is now on display at the Center for Colorado Women's History.