34 Facts About Lucretia Mott

Lucretia Mott was an American Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer.

Lucretia Mott had formed the idea of reforming the position of women in society when she was amongst the women excluded from the World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London in 1840.

Lucretia Mott's speaking abilities made her an important abolitionist, feminist, and reformer; she had been a Quaker preacher early in her adulthood.

Lucretia Mott advocated giving blacks, both male and female, the right to vote.

Lucretia Mott's home with James was a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Lucretia Mott remained a central figure in reform movements until her death in 1880.

Lucretia Mott's mother ran the family mercantile business and traded in Boston for goods in exchange for oils and candles from the island.

Lucretia Mott's cousin was Benjamin Franklin, one of the Framers of the Constitution, while other Folger relatives were Tories, those who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolution.

Lucretia Mott was sent at the age of 13 to the Nine Partners School, located in Dutchess County, New York, which was run by the Society of Friends.

Lucretia Mott was interested in fighting slavery as a child.

Lucretia Mott died on November 11,1880, of pneumonia at her home, Roadside, in the district now known as La Lucretia Mott, Cheltenham, Pennsylvania.

Lucretia Mott was buried at Fair Hill Burial Ground, a Quaker cemetery in North Philadelphia.

Rare for the time, Lucretia Mott was among a group of single and married women, like Jane Fenn Hoskens and Elizabeth Fry, who traveled as part of their ministry.

Lucretia Mott's sermons included her free produce and anti-slavery sentiments.

Lucretia Mott's theology was influenced by Unitarians including Theodore Parker and William Ellery Channing as well as early Quakers including William Penn.

Lucretia Mott thought that "the kingdom of God is within man" and was part of the group of religious liberals who formed the Free Religious Association in 1867, with Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise.

Lucretia Mott formed and was a leader of the Female Anti-Slavery Society, which merged with the male-centric organization in 1839.

Lucretia Mott, a founding member of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, and other white and black women founded the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society.

Lucretia Mott attended all three national Anti-Slavery Conventions of American Women.

Amidst social persecution by abolition opponents and pain from dyspepsia, Lucretia Mott continued her work for the abolitionist cause.

Lucretia Mott managed their household budget to extend hospitality to guests, including fugitive slaves, and donated to charities.

Lucretia Mott was praised for her ability to maintain her household while contributing to the cause.

In June 1840, Lucretia Mott attended the General Anti-Slavery Convention, better known as the World's Anti-Slavery Convention, in London, England.

Lucretia Mott was among the women included in the commemorative painting of the convention, which featured female British activists: Elizabeth Pease, Mary Anne Rawson, Anne Knight, Elizabeth Tredgold and Mary Clarkson, daughter of Thomas Clarkson.

Lucretia Mott continued an active public lecture schedule, with destinations including the major Northern cities of New York City and Boston, as well as travel over several weeks to slave-owning states, with speeches in Baltimore, Maryland and other cities in Virginia.

Lucretia Mott arranged to meet with slave owners to discuss the morality of slavery.

Lucretia Mott had a personal audience with President John Tyler who, impressed with her speech, said, "I would like to hand Mr Calhoun over to you", referring to the senator and abolition opponent.

Lucretia Mott was a founder and president of the Northern Association for the Relief and Employment of Poor Women in Philadelphia.

In 1850, Lucretia Mott published her speech Discourse on Woman, a pamphlet about restrictions on women in the United States.

In 1866, after the Civil War, the American Equal Rights Association was founded, with Lucretia Mott serving as the first president of the integrated organization.

Lucretia Mott was a fund-raiser for the Philadelphia School of Design for Women.

Lucretia Mott was a pacifist, and in the 1830s, she attended meetings of the New England Non-Resistance Society.

In 1983, Lucretia Mott was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.

The US Treasury Department announced in 2016 that an image of Mott will appear on the back of a newly designed $10 bill along with Sojourner Truth, Susan B Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul and the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession.