Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Mott Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-035
Overview
Lucretia Mott was a prominent Philadelphia Quaker minister and a leader in reform movements, especially antislavery, education, peace, and women's rights. She was born in 1793 in Nantucket, Mass., the daughter of Thomas and Anna Coffin, and educated at Nine Partners Boarding School in Dutchess Co., N.Y. In 1811, she married James Mott and they settled in Philadelphia, Pa. The Motts were active Hicksite Quakers, and Lucretia served as clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and traveled in the...
Dates:
1831-1898
Friends Historical Library Collection of Sermons
Collection — Othertype MSS-047
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-047
Overview
Collected sermons received from miscellaneous sources.
Dates:
1737 - 1870
Filtered By
- Subject: Lay ministry -- Society of Friends X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Abolitionists -- United States 1
- Antislavery movements -- United States 1
- Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States 1
- Feminism -- United States 1
- Feminism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Feminists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
- Quaker women 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Slavery and the church -- Society of Friends 1
- Social reformers -- United States 1
- Society of Friends -- Sermons 1
- Spirituality -- Society of Friends 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Public Opinion 1
- Women abolitionists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
- Women's rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
∨ more
