23 Facts About James Mott

James Mott was a Quaker leader, teacher, merchant, and anti-slavery activist.

James Mott helped found anti-slavery organizations, participated in the "free-produce movement", and operated an Underground Railroad depot with their family.

James Mott supported women's rights, chairing the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.

James Mott spent four years supporting the establishment of Swarthmore College.

James Mott was born in Cow Neck on Long Island, New York to a Quaker family.

James Mott was a teacher at Nine Partners School, where he met Lucretia Coffin.

James Mott married Lucretia on April 10,1811, at Pine Street Meeting in Philadelphia.

James Mott was a member of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

James Mott weathered the difficult years of the War of 1812 and the Panic of 1819, after which he became a textile merchant in 1822.

James Mott began by dealing in cotton, but like other people who had become Hickite Quakers, he hated that cotton was produced by enslaved people.

James Mott was one of the first people to support William Lloyd Garrison.

James Mott helped found the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society with Lucretia and he was the president of the organization for several years.

James Mott was part of the "agitation" to admit women delegates.

James Mott was threatened by the mob until freedmen and abolitionists got the better of the situation.

The Harrisburg Telegraph said James Mott was an "inveterate enemy of American slavery" in his obituary.

James Mott's grandparents helped people who arrived at Hempstead Harbor, Long Island, near a boat landing site near their home and provided transportation to New Rochelle, New York.

James Mott's elders helped formerly enslaved people before the Underground Railroad was established.

James Mott, operated an Underground Railroad depot at their house at 338 Arch Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with the help of his family members.

People that came through the James Mott house were aided on their journey by Isaac Hopper and Hannah Cox.

James Mott aided and his family aided Henry "Box" Brown in 1849.

James Mott chaired the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 on July 19 and 20 at which his wife was the main speaker.

James Mott was the only male to have chaired a women's rights convention.

From 1865 to 1869, James Mott helped found Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.