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Lucretia Mott (née Coffin; January 3, 1793 – November 11, 1880) was an American Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer. She had formed the idea of reforming the position of women in society when she was amongst the women excluded from the World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London in 1840.
Lucretia Mott (born January 3, 1793, Nantucket, Massachusetts, U.S.—died November 11, 1880, near Abington, Pennsylvania) was a pioneer reformer who, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, founded the organized women’s rights movement in the United States.
Lucretia Coffin Mott was an early feminist activist and strong advocate for ending slavery. A powerful orator, she dedicated her life to speaking out against racial and gender injustice.
Dec 2, 2009 · Lucretia Mott was a 19th-century feminist activist, abolitionist, social reformer and pacifist who helped launch the women’s rights movement. Raised on the Quaker tenet that all...
Apr 2, 2014 · Lucretia Mott was a women's rights activist, abolitionist and religious reformer. Mott was strongly opposed to slavery and a supporter of William Lloyd Garrison and his American...
Mott’s willingness to speak uncomfortable truths made her among the most famous women of her day, sharing stages with such icons as Sojourner Truth. In 1848 a group led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and including Lucretia Mott, called a convention on women’s rights: the Seneca Falls Convention.
Lucretia Mott, née Lucretia Coffin, (born January 3, 1793, Nantucket, Massachusetts, U.S.—died November 11, 1880, near Abington, Pennsylvania), pioneer reformer who, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, founded the organized women’s rights movement in the United States.
