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The Women Behind the Seneca Falls Convention


            Women earned their rights through a movement that was started at the Seneca Falls convention. This convention was led by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and many other women who lived their lives to make sure those women always had their rights. According to history.com (n.d) "Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) was one of the leading voices of the abolitionist and feminist movements of her time" (para.1). Lucretia Mott was born in Nantucket, MA in 1793. In 1811 Mott moved to Philadelphia where she married her husband James Mott who was in the wool trade and cotton industries, but eventually became primarily focused on wool trading to protest the cotton industry in the south because this industry was slavery dependent. Around the year of 1818 Lucretia became a minister of Society of Friends which was in Philadelphia. .
             Lucretia followed the Quaker beliefs which then allowed women a chance to take a position in the public that would include a different array of social issues. Lucretia Mott's husband was a great supporter of his wife, and inspired her to take this position. Lucretia was appointed the clerk of the Philadelphia Women's Yearly Meeting in the 1830s. There was a split between the Quakers during the 1820s; there were the more traditional Quakers and the less conservative which were followers of Elias Hicks. In 1827 the Mott family followed the less conservative side. Mott committed to several travels that went through the Midwest and the East, where she spoke to many reform groups. Some these groups were Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women and Quaker meetings just to name a few. During the 1840's Mott was appointed as one of six women to participate in the World's Anti-Slavery Convention which was to be held in England. It was there that Mott and the other six women were denied seats, this was what sparked Mott to seek equality for women. Lucretia Mott was one of the first women to sign the Declarations of Sentiments in 1848, this declaration called for equal treatment of all women.


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