Editing Elizabeth Cady Stanton (section)

=== World Anti-Slavery Convention ===
[[File:Mott Lucretia Painting Kyle 1841.jpg|thumb|[[Lucretia Mott]]]]
While on their honeymoon in England in 1840, the Stantons attended the [[World Anti-Slavery Convention]] in London. Elizabeth was appalled by the convention's male delegates, who voted to prevent women from participating even if they had been appointed as delegates of their respective abolitionist societies. The men required the women to sit in a separate section, hidden by curtains from the convention's proceedings. [[William Lloyd Garrison]], a prominent American abolitionist and supporter of women's rights who arrived after the vote had been taken, refused to sit with the men and sat with the women instead.<ref>McMillen, pp. 72–75</ref>

[[Lucretia Mott]], a [[Quaker]] minister, abolitionist and women's rights advocate, was one of the women who had been sent as a delegate. Although Mott was much older than Stanton, they quickly bonded in an enduring friendship, with Stanton eagerly learning from the more experienced activist. While in London, Stanton heard Mott preach in a [[Unitarianism|Unitarian]] chapel, the first time Stanton had heard a woman give a sermon or even speak in public.<ref>Griffith, p. 37</ref>
Stanton later gave credit to this convention for focusing her interests on women's rights.<ref>Ginzberg, p. 41</ref>