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Elizabeth Cady Stanton. From the collections of the Library of Congress. The Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention is regarded as the first women’s rights convention and the beginning of the women’s rights movement. The organizers of the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls- Lucretia Mott, Martha Coffin Wright, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jane Hunt, and Mary Ann M’Clintock ...
1 de dic. de 2005 · The roles played by Stanton's colleagues Lucretia Mott, Martha Coffin Wright, Abby Kelley, and the M'Clintocks and numerous other players in abolition and women's rights are discussed as they relate to Seneca Falls and other facets of the movement. Issue Section: Book Reviews.
4 de abr. de 2023 · LUCRETIA COFFIN MOTT AND MARTHA COFFIN WRIGHT The principles of Quakerism had a significant influence on the activities of the First Women’s Rights Convention organizers Lucretia Coffin Mott and her younger sister, Martha Coffin Wright. Their Quaker family instilled in them a firm belief in equality and commitment to their community.
We discuss reform in antebellum America through the life of Martha Coffin Wright, an activist in the abolition and early women’s rights movements. Consideration of her motivations for reform; the obstacles faced by these movements; their methods, successes, and failures, may offer guidelines for reformers of today.
11 de mar. de 2019 · Becoming a Reality. But it was not until an 1848 visit of Lucretia Mott with her sister, Martha Coffin Wright, during an annual Quaker convention, that the idea of a women's rights convention turned into plans, and Seneca Falls became a reality. The sisters met during that visit with three other women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary Ann M ...
Martha Coffin Wright, 1820s. The Miller-Seward Family, ca. 1846. Runaway advertisement for Tubman. Freeman Stabbing Child, 1847-50. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and sons, 1848. View from Pennsylvania Avenue of the Capitol, 1857. Letter from Frances A. Seward to William H. Seward, January 19, 1861 .
Eight years later, on July 19 and 20, 1848, Mott, Stanton, Mary Ann M’Clintock, Martha Coffin Wright, and Jane Hunt acted on this idea when they organized the First Woman’s Rights Convention. Throughout her life Mott remained active in both the abolition and women’s rights movements.
