Lucretia Mott Research Paper

The massive hooting crowd outside Pennsylvania in Philadelphia was not in a good mood. It was in May 16, 1838, where the second Anti-Slavery Convention of Women was held in the brand-new building. That night, the women advocated for a boycott of slavery-produced goods in order to end slavery in United States. A 45-year-old Quaker minister, Lucretia Mott, could not refuse the threat of clash. The mob began to break the building and set it on fire. As the organizer of the convention, Lucretia Mott was responsible for all threats that happened. She was at this time widely known as an abolitionist. She dedicated her entire life to fighting against slavery and later she became the foremost leader of the women’s right movement. Even though a lot of people tried to attack her physically and mentally, her strong sense of discrimination made her able to erase racial and women’s right. Lucretia Mott was not afraid to stand up against discrimination and slavery activity (Peck, 2014).
Lucretia Mott was born as the daughter of a Nantucket sea captain on January 3, 1793, in Massachusetts. At that time, Nantucket was well known as the center of the U.S. Whaling industry where, Thomas Coffin, her father, sailed far away to China in order to obtain sperm whales. Her mother, Anna Coffin, operated a small shop while he was away. Lucretia Mott was reared …show more content…
Antislavery was far from popular in 1830s. In Philadelphia, mobs destroyed Pennsylvania Hall where abolitionists meeting and printing presses for antislavery newspapers and pamphlets were held. Her dedication to the women’s right was not vanished easily. She helped writing a draft of the constitution for small band of pioneering women to manifest women opposition of the injustice discrimination. She kept going on with her antislavery activity and women’s right. Although, Public really opposed her abolitionism (Peck,