Lucretia Coffin Mott
Lucretia Mott was a women's rights activists who was not really popular but should be remembered for her incredible actions in both as an abolitionist and women's rights activists. "Lucretia Mott was one of the leading voices of the abolitionist and feminist movements of her time."-History.com
Born in January 3, 1793-Nantucket, Massachusetts Died in November 11, 1880-Chelton Hills, Pennsylvania (today this location is part of Philadelphia). Early Life...Lucretia was a Quaker. Lucretia married James Mott in 1811. Lucretia learned to hate slavery when she went to a Quaker school at age 4 and read a horrible book on African slave trades. "It told how blacks were captured, separated from their families, and packed tightly below the decks of slave ships. Chained together, without enough air, water, or food, many of them died on the terrible voyage from Africa to the West Indies and America. To escape their misery, some starved themselves to death or jumped into the sea and drowned. They had a home for runaway of the Underground Railroad where Southern slaves escaped from their plantation and headed to North. Lucretia followed Elias Hicks in the Great Separation in 1827. She refused to use any products that were made by slaves. Lucretia was in the Society of Friends also called the Friends of Church. She was a Quaker minister somewhere in the 1810s and 1820s when her first child died. Lucretia and James had 6 children and 5 were died of infancy. Lucretia helped founded the Philadelphia Female Anti Slavery Society and was served as president. Lucretia was a teacher in Swarthmore College which she founded in 1864. Lucretia fond how unfair the law was to women when she went to the World's Antislavery Convention in London(1840-people didn't let women participated) where she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton. In 1833, she participated in the American Antislavery Society.
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Working For Equal Rights...Lucretia and Elizabeth gathered people to talk about women's rights where soon in 1848 the women's rights convention was made in Seneca Falls, New York. Lucretia was elected in 1852 of the convention. In 1866, Lucretia was elected head of the American Equal Rights Association. Soon, the association was broken in half in 1869. There was the National Women Suffrage Association which was leaded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. The other half was the American Women Suffrage Association which was leaded by Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, and many others. They were both rivals until, 1890 of May, both association were combined and were called the National American Women Association. Lucretia wrote Discourse on Women in 1850. Lucretia was vice president of the Universal Peace Union in 1870.
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More Information...
In 1867, Lucretia formed the Fee Religious Association in Boston.
The Swarthmore college was a co-ed school.
All her letters, diaries, and other papers are in the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
In 1884, her granddaughter, Anna Davis Hallowell edited the James and Lucretia Mott:Life and Letters.
The Swarthmore college was a co-ed school.
All her letters, diaries, and other papers are in the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
In 1884, her granddaughter, Anna Davis Hallowell edited the James and Lucretia Mott:Life and Letters.
Quotes by Lucretia Mott
"If our principles are right, why should we be coward?"
"Let her(women) receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the activists business of life."
"I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day."
"We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth."
"Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent."
"The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of women the very fountains of life are poisoned at their sources."
"Let her(women) receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the activists business of life."
"I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day."
"We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth."
"Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent."
"The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of women the very fountains of life are poisoned at their sources."