Lucretia Mott
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)
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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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