Read Part One HERE
In this post I continue to focus on a woman named Lucretia Coffin Mott. She lived from 1793 -1880.
In 1818 Lucretia began to speak at religious meetings, and three years later she was accepted as a Minister of the Friends. She began to travel about the country in the 1820's lecturing on religion and questions of social reform, including temperance, the abolition of slavery, and peace.
In 1833 Lucretia attended the founding convention of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and immediately thereafter she led in organizing its women's auxiliary, the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society, of which she was chosen President. She met opposition within the Society of Friends when she spoke of abolition, and attempts were made to strip her of her ministry and membership. In 1837 she helped organise the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women, and in May 1838 her home was almost attacked by a mob after the burning of the Pennsylvania Hall, Philadelphia, where the convention had been meeting. Rebuffed as a delegate to the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840 because of her sex, Lucretia still managed to make her views known.
P.S. In will continue the story on Lucretia coffin Mott in my next post.
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