Objective:
The goal of Lucretia Mott was to create equality for everyone, despite race and gender, through social reform and civil disobedience.
Summary/Background Information:
Lucretia Mott was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts on January 3, 1793. At the age of 13 she was sent to Nine Partners School, a Quaker school in Dutchess County, New York, ran by the Society of Friends. After her graduation she became a teacher. She would become interested in Women's rights after she discovered that the male staff at the school was being payed significantly more than the female staff. After this she would move with her family to Philadelphia with James Mott(a teacher at Nine Partners) would follow.
Professional Experience:
Lucretia Mott was a teacher at Quaker, Nine Partners School in in
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During the convention members developed the document known as the declaration of Sentiments. The document was based on the American Declaration of Independence and the Women's rights movement. This Declaration would go on to influence the Women's rights movement for generation sparking a chain of events leading to modern day feminism.
American Equal Rights Association: After the end of the Civil War Lucretia Mott was voted the first president of the American Equal Rights Association. This was a group that would help to ensure that people were equal. It was quite an accomplishment for the Women's suffrage movement as well being that a woman was their leader.
References:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Stanton was a very prominent suffragist, social activist, and abolitionist. She would come to admire and eventually befriend Lucretia Mott at the Seneca Falls convention were Stanton would present her Declaration of Sentiments. They would Alter go on to create the American Equal Rights Association