Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott - 9780252026744

Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin MottAuthor(s): Lucretia Coffin Mott, Beverly Wilson Palmer, Holly Ochoa, Carol Faulkner\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252026744, 978-0252026744\nSynopsis\nThis landmark volume collects Lucretia Mott's correspondence for the first time, highlighting the length and breadth of her work as an activist dedicated to reform of almost every kind and providing an intimate glimpse of her family life.\n\nMotts achievements left a mark on reform movements from abolition to women's rights. The letters cover her work in these causes as well as her founding of key antislavery organizations; her friendships with Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth; her efforts to bring Quakers into the abolitionist movement; and her part in organizing the 1848 Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention. Other correspondence cover her fifty-six-year marriage, the five children she raised to .