Lucretia Mott (1793-1870)
Born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, was sent with 13 years at a boarding school where he eventually ended up as a teacher. His interest in women's rights began when he discovered that his fellow teachers received twice the teachers salary.
belongs to the Protestant faith of the Quakers, opposed the slave trade and was an active member of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
In 1840 she traveled with her friend Elizabeth Cady Stanton to London as delegates to the World Convention against Slavery. Angry both at being denied the right to speak, decided to organize their return to the United States a society to defend the rights of women.
was, however, eight years later when Mrs. Stanton managed to organize a Convention on the Rights Women in Seneca Falls. Along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone formed in 1866 the American Association for Equal Rights. The following year, the organization began operations in Kansas, where it was to decide by vote the granting of suffrage to blacks and women.
remained active until a very late age as an advocate for women's rights.
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