Stanton and Susan B. Anthony organized further activism at the New York State Woman's Rights Convention in Syracuse.
On October 20, 1852, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony participated in and helped organize the New York State Woman's Rights Convention held in Syracuse, New York. This convention represented an important continuation of the movement's momentum at the state level, following the national conventions of 1850 and 1851.
By this time, Stanton and Anthony—who had met the previous year—were beginning the extraordinary decades-long partnership that would come to define the American suffrage movement. While Stanton, tied to domestic responsibilities as a mother of several young children, often could not travel extensively, Anthony frequently served as her organizational counterpart, carrying Stanton's speeches and ideas to conventions across the state and nation.
The Syracuse convention addressed ongoing efforts to reform New York's married women's property laws, an issue of particular importance to Stanton, whose father's legal practice had exposed her early to the injustices faced by women under coverture laws. Stanton's efforts on this front would contribute to the eventual passage of an expanded New York Married Women's Property Act in 1860.
This convention exemplifies the sustained, incremental organizing work that kept the women's rights movement active throughout the 1850s, laying essential groundwork for postbellum suffrage activism.