Womans Issues

The picture above is of a woman named Lucretia Mott. What was so special about this woman? Well, she was an Antislavery and Woman's Right leader!

She was born on January 3, 1793 in Nantucket, Massachusetts.  She married James Mott in 1811.

She was from a family of Quackers and she became a Quaker Minister in 1821! She was active in abolitionist movements before the civil war. She helped found two anti-slavery groups. Lucretia was also well known for her speeches she gave against slavery!

When Lucretia tried to attend the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, England, the man who controlled the convention refused to hear her and her woman friends. Her response was pleding to work for woman’s rights.  In 1848 she and another lady by the name of Elizabeth Cady, organized the first woman’s rights convention in the United States! This convention took place in Seneca Falls, New York. From this meeting came more demands for rights for woman, including better education, employment opportunities and the right to vote. After 1848, Lucretia spoke widely for both woman’s rights and the abolition of slavery.

She even wrote a book! Her book was called “Discourse on Woman” it was published in 1850. It discussed the educational, economic and political restrictions woman in Western Europe and America.

After slavery was abolished in 1865 she supported the rights of black Americans to vote.

Lucretia Mott died  at the age of 87! She did so much in her life time. For being a woman and not having many rights herself she still fought for the rights of others! She was a wonderful woman and not one to stand in the side lines and let things take their own course. She took action where she thought she needed too. She should be remembered for that.

My research is coming along slowly but surely.  I found this to be a bit interesting as well. I found it on this page

http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96jan/mott.html  if you wish to check it out yourself.

Chew, Robin
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Image was found on google images.