Lucretia Mott's heresy
Subtitle: abolition and women's rights in nineteenth-century America
By: Carol Faulkner
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780812243215
Subjects: Women social reformers; Quaker women; Women's rights; Feminists; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; Biography; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1.Nantucket; title: 2.Nine Partners; title: 3.Schism; title: 4.Immediate Abolition; title: 5.Pennsylvania Hall; title: 6.Abroad; title: 7.Crisis; title: 8.The Year 1848; title: 9.Conventions; title: 10.Fugitives; title: 11.Civil War; title: 12.Peace.