she met in the gallery, while sent up there to not be on the floor of this convention, was elizabeth katie stanton. her husband was also a member of this delegation, and had recently become married. so this was for their honeymoon they went to this anti slavery convention in london. the two of than the two them began to talk and built a friendship. and they said it was this meeting that led to the development of a woman's rights movement per se. it was her part in the leadership. and i think there eight years between this and seneca falls. there's probably a lot going on here. i think also there's a lot going on with the women's rights movement, and there's a lot going on with women civil rights. there's a lot focus on. so, let's jump ahead to 1848. to this particular point in her travels, after speaking mostly a native american issues in new york in 1848. lucretia mott was visiting this woman, and they invited over elizabeth stanton who lived in the neighborhood, and martha wright is actually lucretia mott her sister. and they got together all these women, and they thought they should have a conv

and she is certainly well known for that along with elizabeth katie stanton, the women for women's suffrage in the country, but so is her "i ain't woman" speech. allegedly she said, that man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages and lifted over ditches and to have the best place everywhere. nobody ever helps me into carriages or over mud puddles or gives me any best place, and ain't i a woman? look at my arms. i plowed and worked in barns. ain't i a woman? i can work and eat as much as a man when i could get it. ain't i a woman? i have borne 13 children. that's the report of what she said, and seen most sold out to slavery. and when i called out in my grief, only my mother heard me. ain't i a woman? that goes back to the white audiences i was talking about. the person who recorded her for the newspaper, her speech, had a fairly short version of it. years later, i think it was the president of the association -- sorry -- presented a much longer version, substantially longer, and we tend to go with the much, much longer version. it's a much more emphatic, demanding, in-y