Lucretia Mott's heresy : abolition and women's rights in nineteenth-century America

Lucretia Mott's heresy : abolition and women's rights in nineteenth-century America /

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...

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Main Author: Faulkner, Carol
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011
Series:EBL-Schweitzer
Subjects:
Mott, Lucretia, > 1793-1880.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.
Women's rights > United States > History > 19th century.
Quaker women > United States > Biography.
Feminists > United States > Biography.
Women abolitionists > United States > Biography.
Women social reformers > United States > Biography.
Biography
Biographies.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Heretic and Saint
  • Chapter 1. Nantucket
  • Chapter 2. Nine Partners
  • Chapter 3. Schism
  • Chapter 4. Immediate Abolition
  • Chapter 5. Pennsylvania Hall
  • Chapter 6. Abroad
  • Chapter 7. Crisis
  • Chapter 8. The Year 1848
  • Chapter 9. Conventions
  • Chapter 10. Fugitives
  • Chapter 11. Civil War
  • Chapter 12. Peace
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.

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