In 1840 Elizabeth Caty Stanton attended the World\u27s Anti-Slavery Convention in London, England. Although women were members of the society their delegations were not seated on the convention floor. This experience led her along with Lucretia Mott eight years later to organize the first women\u27s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York to remedy the oppression she saw everywhere and to improve the legal status of women
