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Lucretia Mott - LoveToKnow 1911 (280 words)
LUCRETIA MOTT [[[CoffinCOFFIN]]] (1793-1880), American reformer, was born at Nantucket, Massachusetts, on the 3rd of January 1 793.
In 1848 she addressed the AntiSabbath Convention in Boston, and with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, whom she had first met in London in 1840, called a convention "to discuss the social, civil and religious condition and rights of women," which met at Seneca Falls and passed a "Declaration of Sentiments," modelled on the Declaration of Independence.
Her husband, who was prominent among the founders of Swarthmore College (1864), died in Brooklyn, New York, on the 26th of January 1868; and Mrs Mott died on the 11th of November 1880 near Philadelphia.
Today in History: January 3 (677 words)
Political and social reformer Lucretia Coffin Mott was born on January 3, 1793 in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
Mott's commitment to women's equality was strengthened by her experience as a student and teacher in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Mott's insight and abilities as a speaker resulted in her 1821 recognition as a minister.
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