1793-1880

“I have traveled thousands of miles in this country, holding meetings in some of the slave states, have been in the midst of mobs and violence, and have shared abundantly in the odium attached to the name of an uncompromising modern abolitionist.”

Uncompromising abolitionist

Lucretia Mott was active in working against slavery and for the rights of women. In 1818 she began to speak at Quaker Meeting and was recognized as a minister in the Society of Friends in Philadelphia. Lucretia became a frequent speaker against slavery and she was an organizer of the movement to boycott (not buy) goods made by slave labor.

In 1840 she was chosen as one of six women delegates to the World’s Anti-Slavery Convention in England, but the women were refused seats. There she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton. In 1848 Mott presided over the Seneca Falls Convention for women’s rights.

She continued speaking and working against slavery. In the 1850s, after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, she and her husband James used their house to shelter runaway slaves.

Intellectual Property of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center