What is Lucretia Mott birthday?

Lucretia Mott was born at 1793-01-03

When was Lucretia Mott died?

Lucretia Mott was died at 1880-11-11

Where was Lucretia Mott died?

Lucretia Mott was died in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Which age was Lucretia Mott died?

Lucretia Mott was died at age 87

Where is Lucretia Mott's birth place?

Lucretia Mott was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, U.S.

What is Lucretia Mott nationalities?

Lucretia Mott's nationalities is American

Who is Lucretia Mott spouses?

Lucretia Mott's spouses is James Mott

Who is Lucretia Mott siblings?

Lucretia Mott's siblings is Martha Coffin Wright

Who is Lucretia Mott childrens?

Lucretia Mott's childrens is Thomas Coffin

Which company or organization was founded by Lucretia Mott?

Lucretia Mott was the founder/co-founder of Northern Association for the Relief and Employment of Poor Women in Philadelphia

What is Lucretia Mott's religion?

Lucretia Mott's religion is Quaker

Who is Lucretia Mott's father?

Lucretia Mott's father is Thomas

Who is Lucretia Mott's mother?

Lucretia Mott's mother is Anna Folger Coffin

How famous is Lucretia Mott?

Lucretia Mott is famouse as Abolitionist, Women's Rights Activist, Social Reformer

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Lucretia Mott's Personal Details

Lucretia Mott was an American abolitionist, social reformer and a women's rights activist

Information	Detail
Birthday	January 3, 1793
Died on	November 11, 1880
Nationality	American
Famous	Feminists, Activists, Women's Rights Activists, Social Reformers, Abolitionist
City/State	Massachusetts
Spouses	James Mott
Siblings	Martha Coffin Wright
Known as	Lucretia Coffin Mott
Childrens	Thomas Coffin
Founder / Co-Founder	Northern Association for the Relief and Employment of Poor Women in Philadelphia
Birth Place	Nantucket, Massachusetts, U.S.
Religion	Quaker
Gender	Female
Father	Thomas
Mother	Anna Folger Coffin
Sun Sign	Capricorn
Born in	Nantucket, Massachusetts, U.S.
Famous as	Abolitionist, Women's Rights Activist, Social Reformer
Died at Age	87

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Who is Lucretia Mott?

Lucretia Coffin Mott was a famous American feminist and social reformer in the nineteenth-century America. Though pictured in history as a gentle Quaker lady, her activities infuriated ministers, journalists, politicians, urban mobs, and even her fellow Quakers. From her home in Philadelphia, she travelled usually accompanied by her husband who supported her activism and made speeches supporting abolition. She often sheltered runaway slaves in her home. She helped organize women's abolitionist societies, since the anti-slavery organizations would not admit women as members. Selected as a delegate to the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London, she discovered that it was controlled by anti-slavery factions opposed to public speaking and action by women. She became the "moving spirit" of the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls. Her commitment to women's rights never came in the way or diluted her support for abolition or racial equality. She envisioned women's rights not as a new and separate movement but rather as an extension of the universal principles of liberty and equality. Her long-term collaboration with white and black women in the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society was remarkable. She was a pacifist too and opposed the war with Mexico.

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Childhood & Early Life

Lucretia Coffin was born on January 3, 1793 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, as the second child of eight children to Anna and Thomas Coffin. Her father was a seaman while her mother ran a store.

After the capture of his ship by a Spanish man-of-war, her father retired from the sea in 1803 and the next year moved the family to Boston, where he became a merchant.

At thirteen, sent to the Nine Partners Quaker Boarding School in Dutchess County, New York, run by the Society of Friends, she became an avid follower of Elias Hicks, a fiery Quaker abolitionist.

Career

Lucretia became a teacher's assistant at Nine Partners and was troubled by the unfairness in salary differences between male and female instructors. Here, she met teacher James Mott, the grandson of Nine Partners' superintendent.

The family moved in 1809 to Philadelphia, where Thomas Coffin entered into business, investing all his capital in a factory for the manufacture of cut nails, a new product of the Industrial Revolution.

James Mott boarded with the family and became her father's partner and married Lucretia. In 1815, her father died, leaving her mother with heavy debts. The Motts also suffered financial hardship.

Anna Coffin set about shopkeeping again, and Lucretia taught school while James worked in his uncle's cotton mill, sold plows, and worked as a bank clerk before entering the wholesale business.

James boycotted slave products and traded in wool rather than cotton. Lucretia suddenly began speaking in Meeting, simply but powerfully, and in 1821 she was formally recognized as a minister.

Mott considered slavery as an evil and refused to use slavery-produced goods. In 1821, she became a Quaker minister and traveled extensively as a minister, and gave sermons which emphasized the presence of the Divine within every individual.

In 1833, her husband helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society and later with the help of other women, she founded the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society.

Despite social persecution by Anti- abolitionist, she managed her household budget, extended hospitality to guests, including fugitive slaves, and donated to charities, organized fairs to raise awareness and revenue for the anti-slavery movement.

There was division among the abolitionist regarding public speaking by women. The Congregational Church General Assembly regarded that it was a defiance of St. Paul's instruction for women to keep quiet in church.

Mott attended all three national Anti-Slavery Conventions of American Women between 1837 and 1839. During the convention in Philadelphia, a mob destroyed Pennsylvania Hall. The women delegates linked arms to exit the building safely.

In 1838, the mob targeted her home and Black institutions and neighborhoods in Philadelphia. As a friend redirected the mob, Mott waited in her parlor, willing to face her violent opponents.

In 1840, she attended the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London as one of six women delegates. American women were excluded from participating and required to sit in a segregated area despite protests

Activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton admired her and the two women became friends and allies. One Irish reporter described her, ‘Lioness of the Convention’ and she returned with renewed vigor.

She continued an active public lecture schedule, with covering major northern cities of New York and Boston, as well as slave-owning states, with speeches in Baltimore, Maryland and other cities in Virginia.

She arranged to meet with slave owners to discuss the morality of slavery. In the District of Columbia, her lecture was attended by 40 Congressmen and had a personal audience with President John Tyler

After the Civil War, she was elected the first president of the American Equal Rights Association that advocated universal suffrage, but resigned over differences between factions led by Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

In 1864, she along with several other Quakers founded Swarthmore College located near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One of the earliest co-educational colleges, it remains one of the premier liberal-arts colleges in the United States.

For years, she was vice president of the Universal Peace Union. In 1870 she was elected president of the Pennsylvania Peace Society, an office she held until her death.

In 1876, the centennial of the Declaration of Independence, she presided on the Fourth of July at the National Woman Suffrage Association convention in Philadelphia, where she, Stanton, and Anthony demanded women's rights

Major Works

In 1848, Mott and Stanton organized the first public women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York. Mott signed the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments on women's "right to the elective franchise”.

In 1850, she published her speech, Discourse on Woman, about restrictions on women. She declared that God intended that man and woman be equal and proved her points from anecdotes in the Testaments.

Personal Life & Legacy

In 1811, Lucretia Coffin married James Mott at Pine Street Meeting in Philadelphia. Together they had six children. They lost their second child, Thomas Coffin at age two.

Mott died of pneumonia at her home in Pennsylvania and was buried in the Quaker Fairhill Burial Ground, North Philadelphia. She is commemorated in a sculpture by Pablo Picasso at the Carrier Dome, Syracuse.

Trivia

Her views of marriage can be gleaned from this quote, “In a true marriage relation the independence of the husband and the wife is equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal”.

This American women’s right advocate said, “It is not Christianity, but priest-craft that has subjected woman as we find her”.

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