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Lucretia Coffin Mott

Lucretia Coffin Mott 3 Jan 1793 - 11 Nov 1880

Born Nantucket, Massachusetts

Raised in the Quaker philosophy of universal equality, Lucretia Mott became an influential antislavery and women’s rights activist. In 1833, she helped organize the racially integrated Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. While participating in the second Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women in Philadelphia (1838), she was targeted by violent, anti-abolitionist mobs lashing out against the interracial gatherings and the “spectacle” of women making political speeches in public.

At the first World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, in 1840, male antislavery leaders relegated Mott and other women delegates to ...

1842
Oil on canvas
76.8 x 64.1 x 2.5 cm
NPG.74.72
Image and text © National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2023

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