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both, Martha Coffin Wright (1806–75), whose story has only recently been told. 1. Because the reform movements Martha supported represented a direct assault on the status quo of society, her conservative neighbors in Auburn, New York, labeled her “a very dangerous woman.” Martha Wright and Abolition
WOMAN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT. In mid-July, 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Jane Hunt, and Martha Coffin Wright sat around a mahogany table in Mary Ann McClintock's parlor in Waterloo, New York, writing a Declaration of Sentiments calling for changes in American law and custom that would grant women rights that were equal to those of free, white men, rights denied to women for centuries.
13 de abr. de 2021 · Her friend Martha Coffin Wright was already in Auburn, where she found herself torn between the demands of abolition and women's rights advocates, both of whose causes she cherished.
The true story of Harriet Tubman, Martha Coffin Wright, and Frances A. Seward—three friends who fought for abolition and women’s rights in mid-nineteenth century Auburn, New York. AVAILABLE NOW. WRITTEN BY. New York Times bestselling author Dorothy Wickenden "An epic and intimate history . . .
Martha Coffin Wright (Boston, 25 dicembre 1806 – Boston, 4 gennaio 1875) è stata un'insegnante statunitense, femminista, abolizionista e firmataria della Declaration of Rights and Sentiments. Gli anni della giovinezza. Martha Coffin nacque a Boston ...
While in Philadelphia, Harriet met Lucretia Coffin Mott, an influential Quaker abolitionist. Lucretia’s sister, Martha Coffin Wright, lived in Auburn, NY in the 1850s and would become friends and colleagues with Harriet Tubman. Martha’s husband David was in a law practice with William Seward.
The Wright family includes the Coffins (Ellen's mother was Martha Coffin Wright) and the Mott family (Ellen's aunt, Martha's elder sister, was Lucretia Coffin Mott) and their descendents. These papers trace the activities of the Garrison, Wright and Stephenson families and their friends and associates in England, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New York, among other places.
