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Mott, Lucretia Coffin

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
US antislavery and women's rights leader. She helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833. Growing frustrated by the exclusion of women in abolitionist efforts, she later devoted herself to gaining equality for women. Together with Elizabeth Cady Stanton , she organized the Seneca Falls Convention , the country's first women's rights meeting. Mott was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, and studied and then taught at a Quaker boarding school in Poughkeepsie, New York 1808–09. She married James Mott, a former teacher at the school, in 1811, and became a Quaker minister, known for her eloquent speeches, in 1821. She published Discourse on Women in 1850 and helped found Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania in 1864. In 1827 Mott, with her husband, went over to the more progressive wing of the Friends. She had become strongly opposed to slavery and one of the chief advocates of refusing to buy any products of slave labour; her husband, always her supporter, had to get out of the…
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Full text Article Mott, James, and Lucretia Coffin Mott

From Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World
Lucretia Coffin Mott, a pioneer of the women’s...
Influential reformers in both the abolitionist and women’s rights movements, James Mott and Lucretia Coffin Mott used the social calling of their Quaker heritage to effect change in antebellum America. For fifty-seven years, the couple pooled their considerable talents to fight for the causes in…
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Full text Article Mott, Lucretia (Coffin)

From The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
American reformer and feminist. Born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, where her father was master of a whaling ship, after moving to the mainland in 1804 she was educated in a Quaker school at Poughkeepsie, NY, where she later taught. In 1811 she married James Mott and moved to Philadelphia, and at the…
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Full text Article Mott, Lucretia

From The Great American History Fact-Finder
Quaker reformer and abolitionist. One of the original members of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Mott served as a delegate to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840 but was denied a seat on account of her sex. This led to her work for women's rights. She and Elizabeth Cady Stanton…
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Full text Article Mott, Lucretia Coffin (1793-1880)

From From Suffrage to the Senate: America's Political Women
Mott, Lucretia Coffin (1793-1880)
Quaker minister, abolitionist, and suffragist Lucretia Coffin Mott organized the first anti-slavery convention of U.S. women and helped launch the nineteenth-century women's rights movement. Throughout her life, Mott worked for equality for African Americans, women, Native Americans, immigrants, and…
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Full text Article Lucretia Mott (1793–1880)

From The American Women's Almanac: 500 Years of Making History
Lucretia Mott (1793–1880)
A Quaker minister, abolitionist, and pioneer in the fight for women's rights, Lucretia Mott was born on Nantucket, an island off the coast of Massachusetts. She was the second of the seven children of a Quaker sea captain and a mother who kept a shop that sold goods her husband brought from East…
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Full text Article Mott, Lucretia (1793 to 1880)

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Full text Article Elizabeth Cady, Stanton

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton née Cady (1815-1902) was born in Johnstown, New York. While studying law under her Congressman father Daniel Cady (1773-1859), she determined to address the inequality that she discovered in women's legal, political and industrial rights and in divorce law. In 1840 she married…
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Full text Article Nineteenth Amendment (1920)

From Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution grants women suffrage, or the right to vote. The ratification of the amendment on August 18, 1920, was the culmination of over four decades of struggle, as woman suffrage amendments had been introduced during every session of Congress since 1878. The…
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