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Lucretia Coffin Mott was one of the most famous and controversial women in nineteenth-century America. Now overshadowed by abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison and feminists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mott was viewed in her time as a dominant figure in the dual struggles for racial and sexual equality. History has often depicted her as a gentle Quaker lady and a mother figure, but her outspoken challenges to authority riled ministers, journalists, politicians, urban mobs, and her fellow Quakers.In the first biography of Mott in thirty years, historian Carol Faulkner reveals the motivations of this radical egalitarian from Nantucket. Mott’s deep faith and ties to the Society of Friends do not fully explain her activismher roots in post-Revolutionary New England also shaped her views on slavery, patriarchy, and the church, as well as her expansive interests in peace, temperance, prison reform, religious freedom, and Native American rights. While Mott was known
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press (June 7, 2011)
Language : English
Hardcover : 312 pages
ISBN-10 : 0812243218
ISBN-13 : 978-0812243215
Item Weight : 1.34 pounds
Dimensions : 6.5 x 1 x 9.25 inches
