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Lucretia Mott did not, however, give up on her anti-slavery activism. Lucretia and James protested the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of and also helped an enslaved person escape bondage. She even met with President John Tyler to advocate for the anti-slavery cause. Towards the end of her life, Mott spent more time advocating for pacifism and was vice president of the Universal Peace Union. She was also elected president of the Pennsylvania Peace Society in and served in that role until her death.
Lucretia Mott spent her life advocating for equality and peace, concepts that had been ingrained in her since birth through her Quaker tradition. She died in at age eighty-seven in Chelton Hills, outside Philadelphia. Sign up to stay in touch and learn more about the Global Governance Forum. Jean Monnet November 2, She had to do something about it. I strove to live in obedience to manifest duty. Breaking with those who did not agree "was like parting with the right hand, or the right eye," she remembered, "but when I left the meeting I yielded to the obligation, and then, for nearly forty years, whatever I did was under the conviction, that it was wrong to partake of the products of slave labor.
Doing whatever she could not to partake in the products of slavery included altering birthday celebrations. She toured extensively, speaking on the evils of slavery. During her travels, Mott often clashed with abolitionists who believed women should not have a prominent role in the movement. When Mott announced her intention to serve as a delegate to an abolitionist conference in London despite its stated policy of seating only men, critics expressed outrage.
Instead she expanded her activism. She became a prominent suffragist fighting for the rights of women as well. Even earlier than this, Mott led a meeting that advocated "that it was time that woman should move in the sphere Providence assigned her, and no longer rest satisfied in the limits which corrupt custom and a perverted application of the Scriptures had placed her. Based on the Declaration of Independence, the Declaration of Sentiments proclaimed that "all men and women are created equal.
Although Mott was an ardent Christian and a member of the Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers, she liked to refer to her strong positions on social ills as "heretical. It was the duty of those following in their footsteps, she insisted, to "stand out in our heresy. The distinctive cloak worn by Lucretia Mott shown here must have fully engulfed the woman who, always petite, was said to weigh only 76 pounds near the end of her life.
It disguised an outsize spirit, however. She concealed how much of the way she had walked from the station or how broad a trail of dropped eggs she left behind her. Gift of Lucretia Mott Churchill Jordan. At the age of 80, when Mott learned President Ulysses Grant was staying not far from her home, she put on the bonnet she was known for and announced she was going to see him.
Grant had recently ordered the removal of Indians from a California reservation, and Lucretia Mott had something to say. Philanthropy Topic Women and Philanthropy. Philanthropy Cause Religion Social Justice. Philanthropy Era
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