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	Lucretia Mott - LoveToKnow 1911
		LUCRETIA MOTT [[[CoffinCOFFIN]]] (1793-1880), American reformer, was born at Nantucket, Massachusetts, on the 3rd of January 1 793.
		In 1848 she addressed the AntiSabbath Convention in Boston, and with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, whom she had first met in London in 1840, called a convention "to discuss the social, civil and religious condition and rights of women," which met at Seneca Falls and passed a "Declaration of Sentiments," modelled on the Declaration of Independence.
		Her husband, who was prominent among the founders of Swarthmore College (1864), died in Brooklyn, New York, on the 26th of January 1868; and Mrs Mott died on the 11th of November 1880 near Philadelphia.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Lucretia_Mott (280 words)

	Today in History: January 3
		Political and social reformer Lucretia Coffin Mott was born on January 3, 1793 in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
		Mott's commitment to women's equality was strengthened by her experience as a student and teacher in Poughkeepsie, New York.
		Mott's insight and abilities as a speaker resulted in her 1821 recognition as a minister.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/today/jan03.html (677 words)

	American National Biography Online
		Lucretia Mott never shied from controversy and quickly became embroiled in the various squabbles among the Society of Friends, siding with the Hicksites against the Orthodox when a schism over authority and creed rocked the Quakers in 1827.
		Lucretia Mott spoke frequently on the underlying unity of the various reforms she advocated.
		Lucretia Mott's papers, including two diaries and the bulk of her letters, are in the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
	www.anb.org /articles/15/15-00494-print.html (1788 words)

	Lucretia Mott - Biography of Lucretia Mott (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lucretia Mott (January 3, 1793 – November 11, 1880) was the first major American women's activist in the early 1800s and is credited as the first "feminist", but more accurately, the launcher of women's political advocacy.
		Mott was born Lucretia Coffin in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
		Mott was successful in her abolitionist lobbying and punctuated her career with teaching the ropes of representative government's political advocacy to women coming up as women's and abolitionist advocates.
	www.spiritus-temporis.com /lucretia-mott (550 words)

	An abstract of the Life of Lucretia Mott
		Lucretia Mott was influenced in this time period by Sarah Zane, a well-known Philadelphia Quaker with ties in the Winchester, Virginia area and Lucretia made a trip to Harper's Ferry during this time with her (1818).
		In 1840, Lucretia Mott was chosen as one of 5 representatives of the AASS to the World Conference to be held in London 12 June to 17 June.
		Mott is a great abolitionist, but she's a fine cook too." During the 1840s she was a founder of the Association for the Relief and Employment of Poor Women, which largely was a self-help group, making and selling garments, carpets and quilts.
	www.gwyneddfriends.org /mott.html (3902 words)

	Cheltenham: Lucretia Mott
		At the age of 13, Lucretia was sent to the Nine Partners Boarding School near Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Within two years, she became a teacher at the school, and it was during this time that she met James Mott, grandson of the school superintendent and a teacher himself.
		In 1840, Lucretia Mott was sent to the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London, where she was refused a seat because she was a woman.
		Mott, at the age of 80, paid him a visit to plead for the lives of Indians condemned for refusal to move onto a reservation in California.
	www.cheltenhamtownship.org /lamott/lamott2.htm (1015 words)

	NHPRC - Annotation
		Mott's belief that every human being must be open to the promptings of the spirit fueled her demand for equality for African Americans and for women.
		Mott understood and was empowered by this inheritance.
		In 1827 first James and then Lucretia Mott followed the Hicksite branch (Lucretia insisted it was the Orthodox Quakers who left the fold) which espoused free interpretation of the Bible and reliance on inward authority, as opposed to the guidance of historic Christian authority.
	www.archives.gov /nhprc/annotation/march-2002/lucretia-mott.html (1412 words)

	Lucretia Mott on John Brown (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lucretia Mott was glad that the resolution does not sanction the measures resorted to by John Brown, as in contradistinction to those approved by this Society, and by the American organization of which it is a part.
		Mott read from the Declaration of Sentiments what she said were her views, and what were at the same time the authorized views of this Society.
		Mott concluded by expressing her pleasure that the resolution committed the Society to nothing inconsistent with the high moral grounds it had ever occupied.
	www.quakers-swfl.org /mott-johnbrown.html (327 words)

	Historic La Mott Pennsylvania -- The Mott's (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Political and social reformer Lucretia Coffin Mott was born on January 3, 1793 in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
		Mott's insight and abilities as a speaker resulted in her 1821 recognition as a minister.
		Lucretia Coffin represented many of the old families of Nantucket, and a brief account of her ancestry will interest all of the descendants of Adam and Anne Mott.
	www.historic-lamott-pa.com /themotts.html (2001 words)

	Lucretia Mott - MSN Encarta
		In 1833 the Motts helped organize the American Antislavery Society and in 1840 they were delegates to an international antislavery convention in London.
		Because of her sex, Mott was excluded from the proceedings and she subsequently devoted most of her time and energy to securing equal rights for women.
		For the rest of her life Lucretia Mott traveled widely, attending meetings and conventions on women's rights, temperance, and the establishment of universal peace.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566811/Mott_Lucretia_Coffin.html (238 words)

	Mott Project
		Lucretia Coffin Mott (hereafter LCM) was born on January 3, 1793, to Quaker parents in the seaport town of Nantucket, Massachusetts.
		When she was 13, the Coffins decided to send Lucretia to a co-educational Quaker school, Nine Partners, in Dutchess County, New York.
		In 1811 James Mott and Lucretia Coffin married, and he engaged in cotton and wool trade (he later focused only on wool trading as a protest against the slavery-dependent cotton industry in the South).
	www.mott.pomona.edu /mott1.htm (704 words)

	Lucretia Mott, a gift person essay by Robert Ellsberg
		Lucretia, the daughter of a whaling captain, was born in Nantucket and educated in a Quaker school in New York before settling with her family in Pennsylvania.
		In her later years Mott was glad to cede leadership to a new generation of women.
		Resolved, that this convention presents its greetings to its venerable early leader and friend, Lucretia Mott, whose life in its rounded perfections as wife, mother, preacher, and reformer is the prophecy of the future of woman.
	www.gratefulness.org /giftpeople/lucretia_mott.htm (1051 words)

	History's Women
		Lucretia Coffin was born in 1793 on the island of Nantucket; Massachusetts and her parents were of noble Quaker stock.
		Lucretia was well educated and went on to teach in that same school at the age of fifteen.
		Lucretia Mott was a social reformer and a philanthropist.
	www.historyswomen.com /socialreformer/LucretiaMott.html (735 words)

	Lucretia Coffin Mott - Picture - MSN Encarta
		Mott first worked as a teacher at a boarding school near Poughkeepsie, New York, where she was paid half of what was earned by the male instructors performing the same job.
		Barred as a woman from an international antislavery convention in London, England, Mott recognized that sex discrimination limited her power to speak effectively on public issues.
		As a result Mott and fellow reformer Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461526511/Lucretia_Coffin_Mott.html (116 words)

	Today in History: January 3
		Over the course of her lifetime, Mott actively participated in many of the reform movements of the day including abolition, temperance, and pacifism.
		Mott's commitment to women's equality was strengthened by her experience as a student and teacher in Poughkeepsie, New York.
		Both Mott and her husband were ardent abolitionists and members of the Society of Friends.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/jan03.html (673 words)

	Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793-1880)
		Chosen as a delegate to the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, Mott, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other women, was refused seating as a delegate because of her sex.
		Mott served as vice-president of the Pennsylvania Peace Society, raising money for the education of the free and the newly free, and for Swarthmore College, a co-educational institution founded by Quakers in 1864.
		Widowed in 1868, for the remainder of her life, Mott continued to work for justice, liberty, and equality for all both in the North and the South.
	www.pinn.net /~sunshine/whm2001/mott.html (565 words)

	Mott, Lucretia Coffin - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		MOTT, LUCRETIA COFFIN [Mott, Lucretia Coffin] 1793-1880, American feminist and reformer, b.
		Her husband, James Mott, 1788-1868, whom she married in 1811, was also a Quaker who worked constantly for the antislavery cause and for woman suffrage.
		He was a delegate to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, and he presided (1848) at the first national women's rights convention at Seneca Falls.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-mott-l1uc.html (376 words)

	Lucretia Mott (Quakerbooks.org)
		Lucretia Mott - Quaker minister, anti-slavery leader, champion of the feminist cause-this gentle woman's life is chronicled in a dynamic biography by Margaret Hope Bacon.
		This new edition of Valiant Friend makes the life story of Lucretia Mott, "the most venerated woman in America," available to us as a shining example of what a life of courage and conviction can accomplish.
		The correspondence of the Quaker activist Lucretia Mott, these letters illustrate the length and breadth of her public life as a leading reformer while providing an intimate glimpse of her family life.
	www.quakerbooks.org /get/333224 (219 words)

	Lucretia Mott: Woman of Courage \| Scholastic.com
		All this time, Lucretia Mott, a tiny woman barely five feet tall and weighing less than 100 pounds, sat calmly in her front parlor chatting with friends.
		Lucretia Mott was born January 3, 1793, on the island of Nantucket off Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
		In 1840, Lucretia Mott and her husband were chosen as delegates from Pennsylvania to the World Anti-Slavery convention.
	teacher.scholastic.com /researchtools/articlearchives/womhst/lucretia.htm (1519 words)

	Lucretia Mott Biography - Biography.com
		Born Lucretia Coffin on January 3, 1793, in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
		Mott was strongly opposed to slavery, and advocated not buying the products of slave labor, which prompted her husband, always her supporter, to get out of the cotton trade around 1830.
		Lucretia Mott and her husband attended the famous World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840, the one that refused to allow women to be full participants.
	www.biography.com /search/article.do?id=9416590 (349 words)

	Lucretia Mott by Joseph Kyles
		By the early 1830s, having distinguished herself as a Quaker minister, she was founding Philadelphia’s Female Anti-Slavery Society, and her regally erect figure was becoming a familiar sight on the abolitionist podium.
		Mott’s commitment to freeing fls deepened her awareness of the constraints society placed on her own sex.
		A letter of 1841 suggests that this portrait of Mott was begun in the spring of that year.
	www.civilwar.si.edu /slavery_mott1.html (164 words)

	Lucretia Mott Biography and Summary
		Lucretia Coffin was born on Jan. 3, 1793, on the island of Nantucket, Mass.
		Lucretia Mott became a figure of national importance in the abolition and women's rights movements of the mid nineteenth century.
		Lucretia Coffin Mott(January 3, 1793 – November 11, 1880) was an American Quaker, abolitionist, social reformer and proponent of women's rights.
	www.bookrags.com /Lucretia_Mott (173 words)

	Lucretia Mott, Quaker human rights pioneer
		In 1848, while Mott was visiting her sister in Auburn, New York, she met with Stanton and helped to plan the first woman's rights convention.
		Mott delivered the opening and closing addresses at the Seneca Falls Convention, and her husband James chaired the proceedings at the Wesleyan Chapel.
		As she wrote, spoke, and attended women's conventions, younger feminists recognized that Mott's early leadership had been crucial in the infancy of the women's rights movement.
	www2.gol.com /users/quakers/mott.htm (241 words)

	Lucretia Mott, Feminist Press
		The daughter of a Nantucket sea captain, Lucretia Mott exhibited, from her earliest years, an extraordinary confidence and eloquence.
		As an adult, she dared to speak out to all-male audiences and refused to be silenced when she was attacked by protestors or when meeting halls where her organizations were to gather were burned down.
		In her later years, Mott became an advisor to presidents and a colleague to such activists as Frederick Douglas, Susan B. Anthony, and Sojourner Truth.
	www.feministpress.org /Book/index.cfm?GCOI=55861100876010 (79 words)

	Mott Project
		Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793-1880) devoted her life to the abolition of slavery, women's rights, school and prison reforms, temperance, peace, and religious tolerance.
		The Lucretia Coffin Mott Papers Project aims to gather all existing letters to and from this early women's rights leader and will create a database of all existing correspondence.
		The Lucretia Coffin Mott Papers project is one of many undertakings throughout the U.S. which preserve and distribute the correspondence, diaries, and speeches of significant American men and women.
	www.mott.pomona.edu (258 words)

	Lucretia Mott
		At the age of thirteen Lucretia was sent to a boarding school run by the Society of Friends.
		Stanton's resolution that it was "the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves the sacred right to the elective franchise" was passed, and this became the focus of the group's campaign over the next few years.
		Lucretia Mott, a woman, as I was told, renowned for her high character, her culture, and the zeal and ability with which she advocated various progressive movements.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAWmott.htm (992 words)

	Lucretia Mott \| Antislavery and Women's Rights Leader
		Lucretia Mott was born Lucretia Coffin on January 3, 1793 in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
		Mott helped found two anti-slavery groups, and was well known for her eloquent speeches against slavery.
		Autobiographical Sketch—Taken from the Pendle Hill Pamphlet, "Lucretia Mott Speaking: Excerpts from the Sermons & Speeches of a Famous Nineteenth Century Quaker Minister and Reformer
	www.lucidcafe.com /library/96jan/mott.html (422 words)

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