Lucretia Mott Speech

Hanna woube Lucretia Mott was American feminist and social reformer in the nineteenth century. She was raised by Quaker family, who expected her to become a leading social reformer. Lucretia Mott was a female abolitionist, a women's right activist, and religious reformer. Mott opposed to slavery and want to end slavery in the United States. She supported William Garrison’s ideas about slavery and his American Anti-slavery Society. She fought for women’s right with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She wanted women to have equal rights as men. Lucretia Mott had so many speeches. “Sermons of Medical Students” and “Discourse on women's” are some of her speech she published. Lucretia Mott was an abolitionist, who wanted to end slavery on the United States. …show more content…
Lucretia Mott started to fight for for equal right for women because when she attended the Anti-Slavery Convention in London, women were not allowed to participate fully. This led Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott to create the Seneca Fall Convention. Mott published her speech, Discourse on Women, about restriction on women. She wrote the Discourse on Women about how women should have equal right as men. “ I have long wished to see woman occupying a more elevated position than that which custom for ages…”(Mott). She wanted women to hold office just like the men. Women worked the same as the men but women were paid under wage which made Lucretia mott angry. She said if women and men worked the same job then they should earn the same wage. “ At the last examination of the public schools in this city, one of the alumni delivered an address on Woman, not as is too common, in eulogistic strains, but directing the attention to the injustice done to woman in her position in society, in a variety of ways. The unequal wages she receives for her constant toil, c., presenting facts calculated to arouse attention to the