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.

Women abolitionists--United States--Biography.

Women abolitionists.

Feminists--United States--Biography.

Feminists.

Quaker women--United States--Biography.

Quaker women.

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

Women's rights.

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

Antislavery movements.

United States.

Genre:

Biographie.

Biographies.

History.

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. 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 activism- her 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 as the 'moving spirit' of the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, her commitment to women's rights never trumped her support for abolition or racial equality. She envisioned women's rights not as a new and separate movement but rather as an extension of the universal principles of liberty and equality. Mott was among the first white Americans to call for an immediate end to slavery. Her long-term collaboration with white and black women in the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society was remarkable by any standards. This book reintroduces readers to an amazing woman whose work and ideas inspired the transformation of American society"--Publisher's description

Contents:

Heretic and saint

Nantucket

Nine partners

Schism

Immediate abolition

Pennsylvania Hall

Abroad

Crisis

The year 1848

Conventions

Fugitives

Civil War

Peace.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-264) and index.

Local Notes:

The Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complementary Collection.

ISBN:

9780812243215

0812243218

0812222792

9780812222791

OCLC:

696092180