Lucretia Mott

1. Lucretia Mott Civil Rights Activist

2. Abolitionist • Lucretia Mott was a remarkable advocator for the abolishment of slavery and for the rights of freed slaves. • She believed in pacifism, or nonviolence. • Boycotted goods produced using slave labor • Against the Civil War’s violence, because she believed slavery could be rid of without bloodshed

3. Home part of Underground Railroad • Founded the First Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women, where she began to intertwine the antislavery movement with the women’s rights movement • Created the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society because she was not allowed into other abolitionist societies

4. Elected delegate to the World Anti-Slave Convention, but was not allowed to formally attend because she was a woman • Location of the first meeting between Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton • During this encounter, the two discussed the idea of a convention addressing women’s rights. When they met again, years afterwards, they made that idea into a reality.

5. The Battle for Women’s Rights • “I long for the day when my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny” • “The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.”

6. Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and a few other women organized • First day-only women allowed • Second day- all allowed

7. Declaration of Sentiments • Created at the Seneca Falls Convention • Based on Declaration of Independence • 18 grievances: how men discriminated against women • 13 resolutions • Women’s suffrage resolution not immediately accepted, but Frederick Douglass convinced the Convention to agree • Written partly by Lucretia Mott, but mostly by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

8. List of attendees to the Seneca Falls Convention. Frederick Douglass http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1539.html

9. Seneca Falls Convention led to many other women’s rights conventions and organizations. • Also made the idea of women’s suffrage more acceptable. • Years later, Stanton, Mott, and Susan B. Anthony created the National Woman Suffrage Association. http://www.wright-brothers.org/Information_Desk/Help_with_Homework/Wright_Timeline/Wright_Timeline_1860_1869.htm http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/suffrage.html

10. Lucretia Mott’s Involvement in Education • Taught at a Quaker school • Mott recognized how unfair education was to women, so she decided to help create a coeducational university called Swarthmore College. • Swarthmore was a Quaker institution that gave equal educational opportunities to women. swarthmore.edu

11. The Power of Words • Lucretia Mott was known for her way with words and powerful, unrehearsed, and spontaneous speeches. • Traveled the country preaching against slavery and for women’s rights • Her most famous speech was Discourse on Woman, which targeted the need for women to have equality in the workplace. • She was such an extraordinary speaker that she was given the opportunity to speak to Congress and President John Tyler.

12. http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/johntyler Monument recognizing Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony. http://www.aoc.gov/capitol-hill/other-statues/portrait-monument

13. “Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come” –Lucretia Mott shortly before her death

14. Works Cited Palmer, Beverly Wilson, ed. About Lucretia Coffin Mott. Pomona College. March 1998. http://www.mott.pomona.edu/mott1.htm (accessed November 22, 2013). Aubrey, Leah. Seneca Falls Convention. February 23, 2001. http://spider.georgetowncollege.edu/htallant/courses/his338/students/laubrey/mottsenecafalls.htm (accessed November 22, 2013). National Women's History Museum. The Seneca Falls Convention and the Early Suffrage Movement. National Women's History Museum. 2007. http://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/rightsforwomen/SenecaFalls.html (accessed November 20, 2013). Neiderer, Sarah K. Mott, Lucretia Coffin. Pennsylvania State University. 2011. http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Mott__Lucretia.html (accessed November 24, 2013). The Seneca Falls Convention. National Portrait Gallery. http://www.npg.si.edu/col/seneca/senfalls1.htm (accessed November 20, 2013).

15. Works Cited cont. Today in History: January 3. Library of Congress. February 14, 2007. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jan03.html (accessed November 23, 2013). Today in History: July 19. Library of Congress. January 5, 2011. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul19.html#firstsenecafalls (accessed November 20, 2013). Today in History: July 20. Library of Congress. January 5, 2011. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul20.html#secondsenecafalls (accessed November 20, 2013). Unger, Nancy C. Mott, Lucretia Coffin. Oxford University Press. February 2000. http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00494.html (accessed November 14, 2013). Zink-Sawyer, Beverly A. "From Preachers to Suffragists: Enlisting the Pulpit in the Early Movement for Woman's Rights." Literature Resource Center. University of Rhode Island. 2000. http://go.galegroup.com.ezproxy.vccs.edu:2048/ps/retrieve.do?sgHitCountType=None&sort=RELEVANCE&inPS=true&prodId=LitRC&userGroupName=viva2_vccs&tabID=T001&searchId=R2&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&contentSegment=&searchType=AdvancedSearchForm&currentPosition=1&contentSet=GALE%7CA66279065&&docId=GALE|A66279065&docType=GALE&role=LitRC (accessed November 20, 2013).