https://padlet.com/holly_johnstone1/emzkxyl6xp37 for history en-us 2017-05-23 01:30:14 UTC 2024-06-24 05:50:39 UTC hello@padlet.com holly_johnstone1 https://padlet.com/holly_johnstone1/emzkxyl6xp37/wish/173275061 2017-05-23 01:34:34 UTC https://padlet.com/holly_johnstone1/emzkxyl6xp37/wish/173275061 holly_johnstone1 https://padlet.com/holly_johnstone1/emzkxyl6xp37/wish/173275543 Lucretia Mott was a leading social reformer of her time and helped to form the Free Religious Association.]]> 2017-05-23 01:39:58 UTC https://padlet.com/holly_johnstone1/emzkxyl6xp37/wish/173275543 aliesha_teixeira https://padlet.com/holly_johnstone1/emzkxyl6xp37/wish/173275739 Lucretia Coffin was born on January 3rd, 1793, in Nantucket, Massachusetts. At age 13 she attended a Quaker boarding school in New York State as she was a child of Quaker parents. She continued to stay at the school but worked there as a teaching assistant. Lucretia met her future husband James Mott while working there. They married in 1811 and lived in Philadelphia.]]> 2017-05-23 01:42:03 UTC https://padlet.com/holly_johnstone1/emzkxyl6xp37/wish/173275739 erin_oyston https://padlet.com/holly_johnstone1/emzkxyl6xp37/wish/173275916 2017-05-23 01:44:02 UTC https://padlet.com/holly_johnstone1/emzkxyl6xp37/wish/173275916 holly_johnstone1 https://padlet.com/holly_johnstone1/emzkxyl6xp37/wish/173277007 a member of the Religious Society of Friends, a Christian movement founded by George Fox c. 1650 and devoted to peaceful principles. Central to the Quakers' belief is the doctrine of the ‘Inner Light’, or sense of Christ's direct working in the soul. This has led them to reject both formal ministry and all set forms of worship. They were strongly against slavery]]> 2017-05-23 01:53:42 UTC https://padlet.com/holly_johnstone1/emzkxyl6xp37/wish/173277007 holly_johnstone1 https://padlet.com/holly_johnstone1/emzkxyl6xp37/wish/173277596 2017-05-23 01:58:20 UTC https://padlet.com/holly_johnstone1/emzkxyl6xp37/wish/173277596 erin_oyston https://padlet.com/holly_johnstone1/emzkxyl6xp37/wish/173277840 2017-05-23 02:00:12 UTC https://padlet.com/holly_johnstone1/emzkxyl6xp37/wish/173277840 aliesha_teixeira https://padlet.com/holly_johnstone1/emzkxyl6xp37/wish/173277924 Lucretia and her husband had a cotton business which was quite profitable but they believed it was too closely related to slavery, because of this, they decided to end the business in 1830. This quote demonstrates how Lucretia felt about slavery: “I feel bound to - plead their cause [slaves] in season and out of season, to endeavour to put myself in their souls’ stead and to aid all in my power in every right effort for their immediate emancipation”.
http://www.quakersintheworld.org/quakers-in-action/63/Lucretia-Mott]]> 2017-05-23 02:00:59 UTC https://padlet.com/holly_johnstone1/emzkxyl6xp37/wish/173277924 erin_oyston https://padlet.com/holly_johnstone1/emzkxyl6xp37/wish/174326239 Lucretia and James Mott happily had 5 children named, Maria Mott Davis, Thomas Mott, Martha Mott Lord, Elizabeth Mott Cavender and Anna Mott Hopper. ]]> 2017-05-30 02:31:23 UTC https://padlet.com/holly_johnstone1/emzkxyl6xp37/wish/174326239 aliesha_teixeira https://padlet.com/holly_johnstone1/emzkxyl6xp37/wish/174327912 Listed below are just a few of Lucretia's contributions to the abolition of slavery:
> In 1840 they attended the  famous World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London, even though women weren't permitted to attend.
> They avoided purchasing products of slave labour.
> In 1821 she became a Quaker minister, helping to abolish slavery.

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