That being said, Lucretia Mott was the speaker at the initial meeting. Mott was spirited and spoke with confidence and efficiency that caught the eye of many abolitionists. This began to spark the alliance between these two societies. In the book The Road to Seneca Falls, written by Wellman, Samuel J. May, a delegate from the Anti-Slavery Society, later stated how mortifying it was that “.men then were so blind,. that we did not recognize those women as members of our Convention.” (p. 48). Once women started to see what they were capable of doing, they couldn’t stop there. Mott went on to create the Female Anti-Slavery Society, including women of both black and white races. This society would go on to promote not only the anti-slavery movement but the rights of women everywhere. Nearly 5 years after the first Anti-Slavery Convention, the women of the Female Anti-Slavery Society would merge with Anti-Slavery Societies all over the world becoming official delegates of societies once ruled by men
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