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Martha Coffin Wright (December 25, 1806 – 1875) was an American feminist, abolitionist, and signatory of the Declaration of Sentiments who was a close friend and supporter of Harriet Tubman.
Martha Coffin Wright (25 de diciembre de 1806 - 1875) fue una feminista americana, cristiana cuáquera abolicionista y firmante de la Declaración de Seneca Falls que fue muy amiga y partidaria de Harriet Tubman.
4 de abr. de 2023 · Learn about the life and legacy of Martha C. Wright, a stalwart of the state antislavery society and a leader of the woman's rights movement in the 1850s. She was the sister of Lucretia Coffin Mott, the mother of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and an abolitionist and friend of Harriet Tubman.
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright. One of five women who planned the first women's right convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848. Presided over numerous women's rights and anti-slavery conventions. In 1874, was elected president of the National Woman Suffrage Association.
15 de abr. de 2021 · Martha Coffin Wright, a Quaker and mother of six, found her voice writing anti-slavery essays for the North Star, an abolitionist paper published by Frederick Douglass. Her friend Frances Seward...
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright’s life as an activist was influenced by her Nantucket Quaker heritage. With a strong female role model in her mother, Anna Folger Coffin, and the Quaker tenets of individualism, pacifism, equality of the sexes, and opposition to slavery, young Martha was well prepared for her future role as an abolitionist and ...
Martha Coffin Wright, the youngest of eight children, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1806. Her father and mother were descendants of Tristram Coffyn and Peter Folger, respectively, two of the original settlers of Nantucket Island in 1662.