How Did Lucretia Mott Influence The Modern World

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Ricky Lin 12/7/2015 Lucretia Mott In the modern world, everyone is mostly balanced and well respected due to the efforted of many great leaders and reformers. Following from the past societies, many people were treating unequal, lack of balance and respect, compare it with the present without them our nations cannot be as peaceful as unity in the modern societies. In addition, the society reform of American developed by the Second Great Awakening, and it was a religious revival movement that promoted after 1790, which it was an emtoinal meeting in order to awakes the religious faith. Influenced by the Second Great Awakening, Lucretia Coffin Mott advocated reforms on the abolition of the slavery, women’s rights, and religious. Lucretia Coffin …show more content…

Thus, every member of Quaker refused using any of slavery manufactured goods, such as cotton sugar and cane sugar. In 1821, Lucretia Coffin Mott became a Quaker minister, becuase of her speaking skills and abilities. Mott developed her faith of anti-slavery with her husband’s support in 1827. In addition, she started preaching and spreading out Quaker’s faith and ideas about abolition by travling to other states. Mott and her husband were trying to resisted people from buying cotton trade around 1830. In order to advocate abolition, Mott started establishing Anti-Slavery Society. In 1833, Mott and her husband established the American Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia, however, she found out that she was the only woman who can speak in the meeting. Therefore, Mott established another soceity with white and black women, called Philadelphia Femal Anti-Slavery Society. Following from this organization, it didn’t only aganist with the slavery, it also assisted and close the connection with the Philadelphia's Black community. While, Mott's sister and brother, Abigail Lydia Mott and Lindley Murray Moore, were also trying to establish an Anti-Slavery Society in Rochester. For the female abolitionists, they donted as much money as they can to the anti-slavery movements and charities by organized fairs to increase the incomes, and setted up the hospitality to provide fugitive slaves to live. Due to the radical …show more content…

Around the 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was request to be a assister by Mott, and Mott established a meeting about women’s rights at Seneca Falls, where the women’s rights movement had began. In addition, Mott was the leader of group, and she led the group to advoacte to the people about the improtant of equal women’s rights, such as suffrage and economic opportunity. In 1850, Mott published her speech on women, which was trying to inspired women to stand up and fight for their rights, freedom. As a reformer, Mott did not stop her work for hleping people after the Civil War. Mott established a collega that female and male were combine in 1864, called Swarthmore College. Following from Quaker’s ideas, Mott also form the Free Religious Association in order to pursue liberty in

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