How Did Lucretia Mott Affect Women

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Meagan DonovantLucretia MottSlavery, discrimination, and inequality were all common problems during the late 1700s and early 1800s and remains a problem in some places today. During that time, many men and women helped to reform our social structures through radical transformation to give everyone equal rights and also help abolish slavery. One of those women was Lucretia Mott, a Quaker from Massachusetts. Lucretia Mott’s radical views on slavery and women’s rights helped shape the personal freedoms given to African Americans and women in today’s society.Lucretia Mott was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts on January 3, 1793 to Thomas Coffin and Anna Folger. Mott grew up as a Quaker and strongly believed in the equality of men and women. She …show more content…

Around this time, Mott really started focusing on trying to abolish slavery and helped found the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. She also began focusing on gender equality during this period. In 1837 she attended the First Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women, held in New York and devoted her speeches to the causes of feminism and anti slavery. Mott received a lot of criticism and was threatened often with physical violence due to her radical views. (history.com)After the convention, Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, another women’s rights activist called a meeting to advocate the rights of women. They advocated that women get equal pay as men for doing the same type of work and also thought women should get an education too. Eight years after the first convention Mott and Stanton held their own convention in Seneca Falls, New York to try and “revise the U.S. Declaration of Independence, titled the Declaration of Sentiments, which borrowed heavily from the stirring language and demands for rightful equality of the original: We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men and women are created equal.” (anb.org)Another part of Mott’s efforts for equality included voting rights. Susan B Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mott came together to form the National Woman Suffrage Association, which was devoted to creating a federal amendment granting women the right to vote. James and Lucretia …show more content…

(biography.com)In conclusion, Lucretia Mott helped do many things to get slavery abolished and help advocate for the rights of all people to be equal. She is a role model to many and is also one of our country’s earliest and most successful reformer.Works Cited1. American National Biography Online: Mott, Lucretia Coffin, www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00494.html.2. “Lucretia Mott: Woman of Courage.” Lucretia Mott: Woman of Courage | Scholastic.Com, www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=4953.3. History.com Staff. “Lucretia Mott.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 2009, www.history.com/topics/womens-history/lucretia-mott. 4. “Lucretia Mott.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 2 Apr. 2014,

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