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May 25, 2012
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Lucretia Mott

Activist

Born: 3 January 1793
Died: 11 November 1880 (pneumonia)
Birthplace: Nantucket Island, Massachusetts
Best known as:

Minister, abolitionist and suffragist

Name at birth: Lucretia Coffin

 

Lucretia Mott was a Quaker minister who was active in the movement to abolish slavery in the United States. In 1848 she helped to organize the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York, and after the abolition of slavery she was a key figure in the women's suffrage movement.

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