Lucretia Mott, Abolitionist and Women's Rights Activist

Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) was an American Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer. She was inspired to fight for women's rights when she was excluded with other women from the World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London in 1840. In 1848 she was one of the leaders of the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention in the US. Photographed by F. Gutekunst in Philadelphia, circa 1870s

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