Lucretia Mott

Lucretia Mott (née Coffin; 1793 – 1880) was an American Quaker preacher, abolitionist, and women's rights pioneer. Influenced by Quaker traditions of gender equality, Mott spoke out passionately against slavery from the 1820s onward, boycotting products of slave labor in her home.

Excluded from participating at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London because of her gender, Mott met Elizabeth Cady Stanton and resolved to launch an independent movement for women's emancipation. In 1848, they organized the Seneca Falls Convention. Mott's home in Philadelphia was an active station on the Underground Railroad sheltering runaway slaves. Known for her serene dignity and eloquence, Mott bridged the anti-slavery, peace, Native American rights, and women's suffrage movements throughout the nineteenth century.