(1) In the summer of 1848, around two hundred women and men met in Seneca Falls, New York, for the country’s first national women’s rights convention (Levine 277). (2) Many people preferred to watch the waterfall instead of the debates at the Seneca Falls Convention. (3) Women’s suffrage, or the right to vote, was the focus of debate at the convention. (4) However, the participants also drafted demands for other rights, such as property rights and equal education opportunities (Stansell 139). (5) The Seneca Falls Convention was very important. (6) The planning began with a coincidence and took eight years to complete. (7) Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott met at an anti-slavery meeting in London. (8) Stanton was a young newlywed at the time, but she was already known to speak her mind on issues of human rights. (9) Mott was a middle-aged Quaker preacher. (10) Stanton and Mott were both upset because women attending the anti-slavery meeting had to sit behind curtains and were not allowed to speak. (11) They were very bored behind the curtains. (12) Their shared outrage at not being allowed to participate strengthened their desire to fight for women’s rights, and they agreed to hold a nationwide meeting to discuss women’s rights when they returned home. (13) Eight years later, Stanton, Mott, and others held the convention in Stanton’s hometown of Seneca Falls (Stansell 134–136).
Which sentence in the first paragraph should be deleted?
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