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Lucretia Mott

A Group of Philadelphia Abolitionists
A Group of Philadelphia Abolitionists
with Lucretia Mott
[seated second from the right].
Philadelphia: F. Gutekunst
Offset lithograph, ca. 1840s
Manuscript Division
Gift of National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1938 (97A.8)

Quaker abolitionist and women's rights advocate Lucretia Mott, was present at the founding of William Lloyd Garrison's American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) in 1833. Told the Society would not accept women as members, Mott helped found the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. When the AASS began to incorporate women as well as men, Mott became a leader in the organization. She later presided over the Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention of 1848.

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