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Notes for Lucretia COFFIN
Lucretia Mott was born Lucretia Coffin on January 3, 1793 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. She was an outspoken leader of the antislavery and women's rights movements in America. She married James Mott in 1811.
Her family were Quakers, and she became a Quaker minister in 1821. Like many Quakers, Mott was active in the abolitionist movement in the United States before the Civil War. Mott helped found two anti-slavery groups, and was well known for her eloquent speeches against slavery.
In 1840, Mott attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, England. The men who controlled the convention refused to seat her and other women delegates. Mott responded by pledging to work diligently for women's rights. In 1848 she and another reformer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, organized the first women's rights convention in the United States at Seneca Falls, New York. Out of this meeting came a series of resolutions demanding increased rights for women, including better educational and employment opportunities and the right to vote.
After 1848, Mott spoke widely for both the abolition of slavery and women's rights. Her book, "Discourse on Women," published in 1850 discussed the educational, economic, and political restrictions on women in Western Europe and America. After slavery was abolished in 1865, Mott supported the rights of black Americans to vote.
Lucretia Mott was the first woman to receive votes for vice president of the United States. She was one of several unsuccessful contenders for the office of VP at the National Liberty Party Convention in 1848.
Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793-1880) was born on Nantucket where she lived until she was 11 years old. After completing grammar school in Boston, Lucretia was sent to a Quaker boarding school, Nine Partners, in Duchess County, New York. It was there that she met her future husband, James Mott, and where she became sensitive to the issue of slavery. In 1811, she and Mott married and the couple moved to Philadelphia where they raised five children.
Lucretia Mott, known for her eloquent words, was a recorded minister in the Society of Friends. Active in the abolitionist movement in Philadelphia. Lucretia organized the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society in 1833. She assisted Harriet Tubman from 1849-1860, helping many escaping slaves through the Underground Railroad. She lectured to the U.S. Congress and to President John Tyler against slavery in 1845. After the Civil War, she advocated for the rights of the freedmen.
Mott, active in the early women’s rights movement in Philadelphia, was one of the five women who planned the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848.
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