1793-1880

Lucretia Mott was born in 1793. She was an abolitionist and a feminist. Mott helped to organize the American Antislavery Society. She and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Mott's home became a part of the Underground Railroad. Mott died in 1880 at Roadside, her country home, north of Philadelphia.

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