| Description |
291 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
Lucretia Coffin Mott was one of the most famous and controversial women in nineteenth-century America. Now overshadowed by abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison and feminists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mott was viewed in her time as a dominant figure in the dual struggles for racial and sexual equality. History has often depicted her as a gentle Quaker lady and a mother figure, but her outspoken challenges to authority riled ministers, journalists, politicians, urban mobs, and her fellow Quakers. -- Publisher's description. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Heretic and saint -- Nantucket -- Nine partners -- Schism -- Immediate abolition -- Pennsylvania Hall -- Abroad -- Crisis -- The year 1848 -- Conventions -- Fugitives -- Civil War -- Peace. |
| Subject |
Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880.
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Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
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Women abolitionists -- United States -- Biography.
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Feminists -- United States -- Biography.
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Quaker women -- United States -- Biography.
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Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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| ISBN |
9780812243215 hardback |
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0812243218 hardback |
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