Lucretia Coffin Mott was born on January 3, 1793 in Nantucket Island, Massachusetts and died in November 11, 1880, Cheltenham Township, United States of pneumonia.
She was the second of five children. She was raised in a Quaker family (Mott was raised a Quaker, a religion that stressed equality of all people under God).
Her father was Thomas Coffin Jr S and her mother was Anna Folgers Mott. her father worked as a ship’s captain, but that took him too much time far away of his family so he decided to move to Boston and became a merchant.
There, Lucretia studied in a Quaker boarding school in New York. she married her father’s business partner, JAMES MOTT, and had six childrens. After her father passing away, her mother had a huge debt, so she…show more content… Mott was a major figure in the reform movements of the nineteenth-century for abolition, women’s rights, school and prison reform, temperance, peace and religious tolerance.
Back in the days women were banned from abolitionist movements, she decided to create the Philadelphia Anti Slavery Society with 30 women. Many of them didn't like the idea of speaking out loud about their thoughts about the slavery situation, but she didn't care about and kept on the movement. By doing that they gained popularity.She managed her household budget to include hospitality to guests and donations to charities, and was praised for her ability to maintain her household while contributing to the cause.
FIGHTING FOR WOMEN’S RIGHT
It was not until 1848 that Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others could organize the First Woman's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York. They signed the declaration of Sentiments almost as the declaration of Independence. It said, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.”
