Schofield, Martha
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1839 - 1916
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Benjamin Coates African Colonization collection
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1190
Overview
Letters relating to the emigration of free Blacks to the West African colony of Liberia and establishment of Liberian institutions written to American Quaker reformer, Benjamin Coates (1808-1887) whose work toward the abolition of slavery led to a relationship with many well-known people connected to Liberia, a colony established to offer a new home and a fresh start away from slavery to free Blacks in the mid-19th century.
Dates:
1848-1880; Majority of material found within 1858 - 1869
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
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- Abolitionists -- United States 1
- Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
- African American social reformers 1
- African Americans -- Education 1
- Feminism -- United States 1
- Feminism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Feminists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 1
- Liberia -- History 1
- Quaker abolitionists 1
- Quaker philanthropists 1
- Quaker social reformers 1
- Quaker women 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Slavery and the church -- Society of Friends 1
- Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States 1
- Social reformers -- United States 1
- Spirituality -- Society of Friends 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Public Opinion 1
- Women abolitionists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
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