Lucretia Coffin Mott, 3 Jan 1793 - 11 Nov 1880 Search this
Medium:
Half-plate daguerreotype
Dimensions:
Image: 11.6 x 8.9 cm (4 9/16 x 3 1/2")
Plate: 14 x 10.7 cm (5 1/2 x 4 3/16")
Case Open: 15 x 23.2 x 1 cm (5 7/8 x 9 1/8 x 3/8")
Case Closed: 15 x 11.8 x 2.3 cm (5 7/8 x 4 5/8 x 7/8")
Type:
Photograph
Date:
1851
Exhibition Label:
Born Nantucket, Massachusetts
A devout Quaker whose activism proved unsettling to some members of her faith, Lucretia Mott assumed a highly visible role in the abolitionist movement. After joining William Lloyd Garrison at the launch of the American Anti-Slavery Society, she helped to found Philadelphia’s Female Anti-Slavery Society. Her concern for women’s rights was a natural outgrowth of her abolitionist efforts. In 1848, Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the convention at Seneca Falls, New York, that galvanized the women’s suffrage movement.
Nacida en Nantucket, Massachusetts
Cuáquera devota, cuyo activismo resultaba alarmante para ciertos miembros de su comunidad, Lucretia Mott asumió un rol destacado en el movimiento abolicionista. En 1833, luego de fundar junto a William Lloyd Garrison la Sociedad Antiesclavista Americana, ayudó a fundar la Sociedad Antiesclavista Femenina de Filadelfia. Su preocupación por los derechos de la mujer era conse- cuencia natural de sus esfuerzos anti-esclavistas; en 1848 colaboró con Elizabeth Cady Stanton para orga- nizar la convención de Seneca Falls, Nueva York, que dio ímpetu al movimiento sufragista.
