Introduction
It is often said that one
does not fully comprehend the consequences of his actions, whether the
consequences be positive or negative.
In some instances however, this could not possibly be the case. And one of these instances is the career of
Lucretia Mott. As a nineteenth-century
abolitionist and women’s rights advocate who lived through and partly made
possible some of the most momentous events in history, Mott must have realized
that she was making history. Her Quaker
heritage encouraged Mott to become an active religious leader at a time when
America was ripe for reform.
Nineteenth-century America was the world of the white man; women
and African Americans therefore, lacked rights equal to those of white
men. And that is what Mott set out to
change. Lucretia Mott was a Quaker
religious leader who had a significant impact on American society as a result
of her efforts to free blacks from the institution of slavery and to release
women from the chains of male-imposed bondage.
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