Lucretia Mott (1793-1880)
Lucretia Mott
Who was Mott?
Lucretia Mott was born into a Quaker family and at a very young age learned of slavery and the inequality among men and women. Mott made it her life mission to change such injustice and fight for the equality of all. In 1833 she co-organized an all female anti-slavery society which led her to delegate at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, where she met future Seneca Falls Convention co-organizer Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
- She was an ordained minister for the Quaker church
- She was a teacher at her former border school, where she met her husband James Mott
- She was an abolitionist and refused all slavery goods including cane sugar and cotton
- Her husband hosted the Seneca Falls Convention
Lucretia Mott was born into a Quaker family and at a very young age learned of slavery and the inequality among men and women. Mott made it her life mission to change such injustice and fight for the equality of all. In 1833 she co-organized an all female anti-slavery society which led her to delegate at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, where she met future Seneca Falls Convention co-organizer Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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