Can you imagine a time when people were slaves and women were not allowed to
vote? Lucretia Coffin was born on January 3 in 1793 on Nantucket Island,
Massachusetts to Quaker parents. While Lucretia was young, woman used to spend
their time at the house all the time but the men had to go to work. When Mott
was a child she learned to teach herself. She was educated at Nine Partners,
which is a boarding school in Poughkeepsie, New York. Mott was married in 1811
to James Mott who was a school teacher. In 1833 Mott helped found the American
Antislavery Society. In 1848 Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton helped organized
the Seneca Falls Convention in the state of New York. The Seneca Falls
Convention was a convention for Women’s Rights. Lucretia was described by some
of the women there as "their guiding light." Lucretia & James used their home as
a station of the Underground Railroad. In 1864 James and Lucretia helped found
Swarthmore College outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
One day November 11, 1880 near Philadelphia. She did not live long enough to
see women get the right to vote.
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