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History. Learn more this weekend on American History tv. The Third National Womens Rights Convention was held in syracuse in 1852. Matilda gage is 26 at the time and had 4 children already. She learns that the convention is going to occur. She writes a speech. She travels to syracuse, bringing her oldest daughter with her. Gage hadnt contacted any of the organizers. She wasnt on the program. She hadnt written to say, may i be involved in this . She just shows up. She waits in the crowd. When there is a quiet moment, she marches up on stage and, trembling, takes the podium and begins to speak. She gives this incredibly moving speech. Afterwards, lucretia is so impressed that she has speech published. That is the only speech from that convention that was published in the paper. And from that early speech, that signal moment of a young woman scared to go up on the podium, but overcoming that because she has something to say. From that moment, she goes on to become a leader in the Womens M

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