Lucretia Mott’s heresy : abolition and women’s rights in nineteenth-century America / Carol Faulkner.

Faulkner, Carol.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-264) and index.
Heretic and saint — Nantucket — Nine partners — Schism — Immediate abolition — Pennsylvania Hall — Abroad — Crisis — The year 1848 — Conventions — Fugitives — Civil War — Peace.
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.

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