One women who started the Seneca Falls Convention and became the president was Lucretia Mott. She was leading figure in abolitionist and feminist movements. She was raised in a Quaker Community and attended a Quaker boarding academy in the Hudson Valley, New York. Mott’s family to Philadelphia and James Mott followed Mott to Philadelphia; they got married in 1811. In 1818, she became the member of the Quaker minister. She helped found the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society in 1833 and become the president. She was denied a seat because of her sex of being a woman at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, 1840. As she was denied a seat, she preached on female equality outside of the conference hall. She befriends Elizabeth Cady Stanton
