Lucretia Mott

Lucretia Mott
Lucretia Mott, at 49 years old (1842), at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Born	Lucretia Coffin (1793-01-03)January 3, 1793 Nantucket, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	November 11, 1880(1880-11-11) (aged 87) La Mott, Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupations	Abolitionist suffragist teacher
Spouse	James Mott ​ ​ (m. 1811; died 1868)​
Children	6
Relatives	Martha Coffin Wright (sister) Eliza Wright Osborne (niece) Mayhew Folger (maternal uncle) Levi Coffin (cousin)

Lucretia Mott (née Coffin; January 3, 1793 – November 11, 1880) was an American Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer. She had formed the idea of reforming the position of women in society when she was amongst the women excluded from the World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London in 1840. In 1848, she was invited by Jane Hunt to a meeting that led to the first public gathering about women's rights, the Seneca Falls Convention, during which the Declaration of Sentiments was written.

Her speaking abilities made her an important abolitionist, feminist, and reformer; she had been a Quaker preacher early in her adulthood. She advocated giving black people, both male and female, the right to vote (suffrage). Her home with James was a stop on the Underground Railroad. Mott helped found the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania and Swarthmore College and raised funds for the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. She remained a central figure in reform movements until her death in 1880. The area around her long-time residence in Cheltenham Township is now known as La Mott, in her honor.