Lucretia Mott, formerly known as Lucretia Coffin, was born to Thomas Coffin Jr. and Anna Folger on January third, 1793 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. For the daughter of a Sea Captain and a Shoemaker, she grew up beyond expectations. Mott was one of history’s great female role models. She was an Abolitionist, Quaker, Women's Rights Activist, Social Reformer, and an overall strong and inspired woman. Throughout her life Mott lead by example and headed many expeditions of freedom, weather that was as a sympathizer or a victim, she upheld her pledge to humanity by being decent and progressive.
Mott grew up in a Quaker community in Nantucket with her mother, father and four other siblings. For the first ten years of her life Mott’s father, Thomas, was indeed a Sea Captain, but after his ship was captured by a Spanish Mercenary, he retired from the seas to be a merchant. Mott liked her hometown for the most part. She delved deep into her religion and enjoyed that she was surrounded by people of similar views. Her religion becomes a huge part of Mott's life when she was sent away to Nine Partners boarding school. A Quaker school in Hudson …show more content…
She lived through the civil war and saw it to the end. Even after the war, Mott was still very influential in the lives of former slaves. She helped establish and work toward suffrage for the now free black population. In 1864, she helped establish a coeducational Quaker university, called Swarthmore College. She also became president of the American Equal Rights Association two years later. She was rapidly becoming ill by the 1870s, but she kept on her course of work. She delivered sermons, speeches and more along side many famous figures. These range from Susan B. Anthony to Lucy Stone. In the end, Mott died of a rare stomach disease that was on set by natural causes. She died on November eleventh, 1880 in Chelton Hills, outside Philadelphia and was buried at Fair Hill Burial
Mott grew up in a Quaker community in Nantucket with her mother, father and four other siblings. For the first ten years of her life Mott’s father, Thomas, was indeed a Sea Captain, but after his ship was captured by a Spanish Mercenary, he retired from the seas to be a merchant. Mott liked her hometown for the most part. She delved deep into her religion and enjoyed that she was surrounded by people of similar views. Her religion becomes a huge part of Mott's life when she was sent away to Nine Partners boarding school. A Quaker school in Hudson …show more content…
She lived through the civil war and saw it to the end. Even after the war, Mott was still very influential in the lives of former slaves. She helped establish and work toward suffrage for the now free black population. In 1864, she helped establish a coeducational Quaker university, called Swarthmore College. She also became president of the American Equal Rights Association two years later. She was rapidly becoming ill by the 1870s, but she kept on her course of work. She delivered sermons, speeches and more along side many famous figures. These range from Susan B. Anthony to Lucy Stone. In the end, Mott died of a rare stomach disease that was on set by natural causes. She died on November eleventh, 1880 in Chelton Hills, outside Philadelphia and was buried at Fair Hill Burial