Lucretia Coffin Mott

Object Details

Exhibition Label: Born Nantucket, Massachusetts; A devout Quaker whose activism proved unsettling to some members of her faith, Lucretia Mott assumed a highly visible role in the abolitionist movement. After joining William Lloyd Garrison at the launch of the American Anti-Slavery Society, she helped to found Philadelphia’s Female Anti-Slavery Society. Her concern for women’s rights was a natural outgrowth of her abolitionist efforts. In 1848, Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the convention at Seneca Falls, New York, that galvanized the women’s suffrage movement.; Nacida en Nantucket, Massachusetts; Cuáquera devota, cuyo activismo resultaba alarmante para ciertos miembros de su comunidad, Lucretia Mott asumió un rol destacado en el movimiento abolicionista. En 1833, luego de fundar junto a William Lloyd Garrison la Sociedad Antiesclavista Americana, ayudó a fundar la Sociedad Antiesclavista Femenina de Filadelfia. Su preocupación por los derechos de la mujer era conse- cuencia natural de sus esfuerzos anti-esclavistas; en 1848 colaboró con Elizabeth Cady Stanton para orga- nizar la convención de Seneca Falls, Nueva York, que dio ímpetu al movimiento sufragista.

Credit Line: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Conservation made possible by a grant from the Smithsonian's Collections Care and Preservation Fund

1851

Medium: Half-plate daguerreotype
Dimensions: Image: 11.6 x 8.9 cm (4 9/16 x 3 1/2"); Plate: 14 x 10.7 cm (5 1/2 x 4 3/16"); Case Open: 15 x 23.2 x 1 cm (5 7/8 x 9 1/8 x 3/8"); Case Closed: 15 x 11.8 x 2.3 cm (5 7/8 x 4 5/8 x 7/8")

National Portrait Gallery

Topic: Costume\Headgear\Hat; Cased object; Lucretia Coffin Mott: Female; Lucretia Coffin Mott: Arts and Culture\Education and Scholarship\Educator\Lecturer; Lucretia Coffin Mott: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Social reformer; Lucretia Coffin Mott: Arts and Culture\Education and Scholarship\Educator\Teacher; Lucretia Coffin Mott: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Social reformer\Civil rights activist\Abolitionist; Lucretia Coffin Mott: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Social reformer\Civil rights activist\Suffragist; Lucretia Coffin Mott: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Feminist; Lucretia Coffin Mott: Religion and Spirituality\Clergy\Minister; Lucretia Coffin Mott: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Social reformer\Civil rights activist\Women's rights advocate; Portrait

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