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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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