Lucretia Mott

1793-1880

Lucretia Mott was a Pennsylvania Quaker and abolitionist. While attending the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840, which prohibited the women in attendance from speaking, she and Elizabeth Stanton decided it was time to address women's rights head on. They organized the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, launching the woman's suffrage movement.

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