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Lucretia Coffin was born on January 3rd, 1793 in Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. She was the second child of Anna Folger Mott and Thomas Coffin Jr. Her parents eventually had 3 more children.

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As a child Lucretia attended a Quaker boarding school in New York called Nine Partners. In this school she learned about the horrors of slavery after attending and reading lectures.

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Lucretia was smart and excelled with her education and her personal life. As a teenager she decided to become an assistant teacher which led her to meet her future husband James Mott. While being a teacher she learned how little money female teachers got compared to the males.

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On April 10, 1811 Lucretia Coffin and James Mott got married. They were married in Philadelphia where the Coffins had only lived for 2 years. Lucretia and James Mott were both abolitionists and members of the Religious Society of Friends.

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Lucretia ended up having 6 children. Maria Mott Davis, Elizabeth Mott Cavender, Martha Mott Lord, Anna Mott Hopper, and Thomas Mott.

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In 1833 Lucretia and around 30 other women abolitionists organized the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. Then, in 1840 she was a delegate for that same society.

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In 1848 she helped plan the Woman's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls. She co-wrote the Deceleration of Sentiments and ignited the fight for women's suffrage.

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In 1866 Lucretia was still speaking out against slavery and became the first president of the American Equal Rights Association. This association made to help achieve African American women equal rights.

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Lucretia Mott said many things in her life but some of the most famous quotes from her are, "If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?" and  "Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it."

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Lucretia Mott died at the age of 87 on November 11, 1880 at her house in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania. Her cause of death was pneumonia. She had many accomplishments in her life.