Lucretia C. Mott

Lucretia Mott , born Whetstone sheath the January 3rd 1793 in the Nantucket and deceased the November 11th 1880 with Philadelphia, was a Féministe, Abolitionniste and North-American pasteure Quaker .

Biography

Lucretia Coffin grew in a medium where the independence of the women went from oneself. His/her father was captain of whaler and his/her mother directed the family agricultural domain. The family belonged to the Quaker S, which believe in the equal value of all in front of God. She studies in a college Quaker. Its interest for the women's rights started when it is teaching in this same college and notes that the wages of the men are there the double of those of the women. Lucretia marries James Mott in 1811 and moves with him in 1821 with Philadelphia, where it is named prédicatrice of local the Quaker group.

The house of James and Lucretia Motts was the center of the movement Antiesclavagiste in Philadelphia and a stage of the Underground Railroad (way of clandestine). The women in this time were regarded as inadequate for the public activity. Lucretia Mott however founds in 1833 the Female Anti-Slavery Society ( female Société abolitionist ). She is often threatened, which does not prevent it from undertaking its multiple activities.

The world congress for the abolition of the Esclavage which is held with London in 1840 refuses the formal participation of Lucretia Mott and its colleagues of fight. It then mobilizes other women Abolitionniste S, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, until the congress on the women's rights of 1848 to Seneca Falls. The Déclaration of Seneca Falls is regarded as the beginning of the feminist movement North-American.

Lucretia Mott belongs to the group of liberals who found in 1867 the Free Religious Association , with inter alia Rabbi Wise and Ralph Waldo Emerson. The Quakers were extremely influenced by its theological positions.

In 1948, a postal stamp honors Lucretia Mott and two other women at the time of the hundredth birthday with the launching of the movement for the women's rights to the United States.

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