Lucretia Mott's heresy : abolition and women's rights in nineteenth-century America / Carol Faulkner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Faulkner, Carol.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880.

Mott, Lucretia.

Women social reformers--United States--Biography.

Women social reformers.

Quaker women.

Women abolitionists.

United States.

Women abolitionists--United States--Biography.

Feminists--United States--Biography.

Feminists.

Quaker women--United States--Biography.

Women's rights--United States--History--19th century.

Women's rights.

History.

Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.

Antislavery movements.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

291 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]

Summary:

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. -- Publisher's description.

Contents:

1 Nantucket 8

2 Nine Partners 25

3 Schism 41

4 Immediate Abolition 60

5 Pennsylvania Hall 75

6 Abroad 87

7 Crisis 109

8 The Year 1848 127

9 Conventions 148

10 Fugitives 161

11 Civil War 176

12 Peace 197.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780812243215

0812243218

OCLC:

696092180