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Lucretia Mott

Lucretia Mott. Early Life 1793-1880. Born to a Quaker family in Nantucket, Massachusetts Attended a Quaker Boarding school in New York and became a teacher there after graduation.

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Lucretia Mott

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  1. Lucretia Mott

  2. Early Life 1793-1880 • Born to a Quaker family in Nantucket, Massachusetts • Attended a Quaker Boarding school in New York and became a teacher there after graduation. • Interests in women’s rights began while teaching at the school when she discovered the men were getting paid triple of what the women were. • In 1811 she married James Mott, also a teacher at the school. • He encouraged her efforts in women’s rights

  3. Slavery • She focused on slavery and started travelling with her husband giving sermons on antislavery and abolition. • She refused to use any products that were the result of slavery including cotton cloth and cane sugar. • Mott founded the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. This female society was the first to include black women too. • Mott started preaching in black parishes on behalf of the society and to encourage black women to be involved.

  4. World Anti-Slavery Conference • In June 1840 Mott led the delegation of women at the World Anti-Slavery Conference in London. • Before the conference the men had voted to exclude women from participating. • The women were segregated at the convention in which activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton became angry because she couldn’t see Mott’s speech. • The meeting of the two set the stage for the Seneca Falls Convention.

  5. Seneca Falls Convention • A social visit brought together Mott, Stanton, Martha Wright, Mary Ann McClintock , and Jane Hunt. • All of them except Stanton were Quakers • Stanton argued that the time had come for women’s wrongs to be laid before the public, and women themselves must shoulder the responsibility. During that visit they decided to call for a convention “to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women.” • Stanton, with some help from Mott put together the Declaration of Sentiments with the Declaration of Independence as her guideline.

  6. The Declaration of Sentiments • Stanton submitted that "all men and women had been created equal" and went on to list eighteen "injuries and usurpations“ • Stanton also drafted eleven resolutions, making the argument that women had a natural right to equality in all spheres. • It stated that it was the duty of women to secure for themselves the right to vote.

  7. Seneca Falls Convention • After only a small add in a local paper 300 people showed up at the convention. • All of the resolutions were passed unanimously except for woman suffrage. • Considering the audience was predominantly Quaker and male so the concept of women’s suffrage didn’t appeal to them. • At the closing session, Lucretia Mott won approval of a final resolve "for the overthrowing of the monopoly of the pulpit, and for the securing to woman equal participation with men in the various trades, professions and commerce." • One hundred women and men signed the Seneca Falls Declaration-although subsequent criticism caused some of them to remove their names.

  8. Criticism • As she continued her work she received more and more social persecution. • Her work was considered frivolous by those who believed women should stay as they are. But she proved that women should take care of their domestic responsibilities but still have power. • After the Seneca Falls Convention the Declaration of Sentiments got much criticism but they used it at an excuse to get their ideas circulating. • “It will start women thinking, and men too; and when men and women think about a new question, the first step in progress is taken."

  9. Purifying the Nation • Although she received some criticism for her bold ideas she was known as a gentle woman who made a good impression on society. • She improved American life by boldly standing up for her beliefs in both anti-slavery and women’s suffrage. • Her success in anti-slavery society and countless speeches and sermons concerning slavery and women’s rights made her a prominent character.

  10. Sources • http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1531255/lucretia_mott_abolitionist_and_feminist_pg2_pg2.html?cat=37 • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretia_Mott • http://womenshistory.about.com/od/suffragepre1848/p/lucretia_mott.htm • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Sentiments • http://www.npg.si.edu/col/seneca/senfalls1.htm

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