Lucretia mott biography
Lucretia Mott
American Quaker abolitionist and suffragist (1793–1880)
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Lucretia Mott, at 49 years old (1842), at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. | |
| Born | Lucretia Coffin (1793-01-03)January 3, 1793 Nantucket, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | November 11, 1880(1880-11-11) (aged 87) La Mott, Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
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| Spouse | James Mott (m. 1811; died 1868) |
| Children | 6 |
| Relatives | Martha Coffin Wright (sister) Eliza Wright Osborne (niece) Mayhew Folger (maternal uncle) Levi Coffin (cousin) |
Lucretia Mott (née Coffin; January 3, 1793 – November 11, 1880) was an American Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer. She had formed the idea of reforming the position of women in society when she was amongst the women excluded from the World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London in 1840. In 1848, she was invited by Jane Hunt