The convention at seneca falls, new york, in july 1848, was organized by lucretia mott and elizabeth cady stanton, two quakers whose concern for women's rights was aroused when mott, as a woman, was denied a seat at an international antislavery meeting in london. the seneca falls meeting attracted 240 sympathizers, including forty men, among them the famed former slave and abolitionist leader, frederick douglass. the delegates adopted a statement, deliberately modeled on the declaration of independence, as well as a series of resolutions calling for women's suffrage and the reform of marital and property laws that kept women in an inferior status. the reader can infer from paragraph 2 that frederick douglass supported mott and stanton's efforts to gain various rights for women because he understood, from experience, a) how it felt not to own property. b) how it felt to have been a slave. c) how it felt not to be able to vote. d) how it felt to have no opportunities.