[MOTT (Lucretia).]

Two cabinet card photographs.

ABOLITIONIST & FEMINIST

Photographs measuring 145 by 105mm and 100 by 62mm. Laid down on card. Philadelphia, Broadhurst & Phillips, and New York, E. Woodward, nd but c, 1870.

£950.00

Two excellent photographs of this important abolitionist and feminist. Both show her late in life and were likely taken around 1870.

Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) was born on Nantucket Island and as a teenager became aware of the horrors of slavery. She regularly attended Quaker meetings and read widely. She was a follower of the abolitionist, Elias Hicks, and commenced her career as a teacher at Nine Partners, where she met her husband James Mott. Her early role in boycotting the consumption of any goods produced by enslaved labour, brought her prominence as an abolitionist.

She advocated for a wide variety of causes throughout her long life. ANB provides a neat summary: “Lucretia Mott spoke frequently on the underlying unity of the various reforms she advocated. She urged the development of women’s mental powers and their admission into the professions and promoted reform of all laws that were detriments to women’s access to equal property rights, education, and the like. Women’s inability to vote, she maintained, was only one of many roadblocks. Unlike some of her contemporaries, however, Mott refused to claim the moral superiority of women but was instead dedicated to achieving equality for all of America’s disadvantaged and disenfranchised, including Indians, women, slaves, and free blacks.”

Stock No.
231800
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