Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls in 1848, launching the organized women's rights movement in America. She was also a brilliant strategist who made alliances she later betrayed, a racial egalitarian who turned to racist arguments when the Fifteenth Amendment gave Black men the vote before white women, and a radical whose views on religion and divorce scandalized even her allies.

This episode traces Stanton from her legal education in her father's law office through the Seneca Falls Convention, her fifty-year partnership with Susan B. Anthony, and the contradictions that make her both the mother of American feminism and one of its most problematic figures.

• Stanton's childhood in a judge's household and the legal discrimination that radicalized her
• The Seneca Falls Convention and the ...