Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott (Women in American History)
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (802 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0252026748 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 640 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Carol Faulkner is Associate Professor of History at SUNY, Geneseo.
An active public life, however, is only half the story of this dedicated and energetic woman. Mott was a seasoned activist by 1848 when she helped to organize the Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention, whose resolutions called for equal treatment of women in all arenas. Her private views on this breach within the woman's movement emerge for the first time in these letters. This landmark volume makes widely available for the first time the correspondence of the Quaker activist Lucretia Coffin Mott. Scrupulously reproduced and annotated, these letters illustrate the length and breadth of her public life as a leading reformer while providing an intimate glimpse of her family life. An invaluable resource on an extraordinary woman, these selected letters reveal the incisive mind, clear sense of mission, and level-headed personality that made Lucretia Coffin Mott a natural leader and a major force in nineteenth-century American life.. Mott and her husband of fifty-six years, James, raised five children to adulthood, and her letters to other reformers and fellow Quakers are interspersed with the informal hurried scraps she wrote to and about her cherished family. A founder and leader of many antislavery organizations, including the racially integrated American Antislavery Society and the Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery Society, she housed fugitive slaves, maintained lifelong friendship
Details of life for a woman to whom we owe our voting ability Laura L. Mays Hoopes Lucretia Mott, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and many others worked hard to get the vote for women. But reading this carefully edited volume of her letters will give you another view of her life: it was very quotidian. Family issues were a great concern, and she was the clerk of the females in her Quake
Anthony Reader: Correspondence, Writings, Speeches . Beverly Palmer has performed an enormous service, for Lucretia Mott's many appreciators and for many others, who will now know the historical significance of this great "woman." -- Ellen Carol DuBois, editor of The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Lucretia Mott was engaged in several of the central social and political movements of that century, and her correspondence opens views into them, especially abolition, women's rights, and religion and Quakerism. Beverly Palmer has done the Religious Society of Friends a real service." --Friends Journal ADVANCE PRAISE: "Finally, a chance to see the full range of ideas, concerns, words of Lucretia Mott, the first foremother of the U.S. feminist movement. But one will also find comments on domestic life and childrearing, public events, pacifism, and Indian rights Palmer included as muc