Record ID:
36167142 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 50016853
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1793-01-03
  • Nantucket Island (Mass.)
Death:
  • 1880-11-11
  • Chelton Hills (Pa.)
Associated with:
  • United States
Fields of activity:
  • Antislavery movements
Occupations:
  • Quaker missionaries Abolitionists
Used for:
  • Mott, James, Mrs., 1793-1880
  • Mott, Lucretia Coffin, 1793-1880
  • Coffin, Lucretia, 1793-1880
Notes:
  • Her A sermon to the medical students ... 1849.
  • NUCMC data from Nantucket Hist. Assoc. for Mott family. Papers, 1765-1960 (Lucretia (Coffin) Mott, 1793-1880; originally of Nantucket, Mass.; Quaker teacher of Philadelphia, Pa.; Hicksite; abolitionist; promoter of women's rights, temperance, and peace)
  • Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass, accessed February 27, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Mott, Lucretia Coffin; abolitionist, women's rights advocate; born 03 January 1793 in Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, United States; was a Quaker minister and member of the New England Anti-Slavery Society (1832); attended the first national gathering of sixty-two antislavery societies, which gave rise to the American Anti-Slavery Society; founded and organized antislavery groups for women; was among the five delegates to the World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London (1840); co-wrote the Declaration of Sentiments that was read at the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York (1848); was the first leader of the American Equal Rights Convention; co-founded the Free Religious Association (1867); shared a platform with Frederick Douglass, receiving a standing ovation (1878); died 11 November 1880 in Chelton Hills, Pennsylvania, United States)
Local system number:
  • 000001173742
  • abv02586062
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC DLC DHU-MS DLC VJTL