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Lucretia Mott
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Lucretia was born
Lucretia Mott was born on January 3, 1793 in Nantucket, Massachusetts -
The Embargo of 1807
The Embargo of 1807 prohibits US exports to Britian and France to protest interference with American shipping. In effect gor 18 months it produced smuggling and unemployment -
Transportation of free slaves
A slave insurrection in Louisiana results in the deaths of some 75 slaves -
Lucretia marries
Lucretia Mott marries James Mott in 1811. -
American Colonization
The American Colonization society was established to transport free blacks to Africa. -
The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri compromise prohibited slavery north of 36 degrees, 30 minutes north latitude. Missouri is admitted as a slave state, and Maine is admitted as a free state. -
Antislavery Newspapaer
Benjamin Lundy publishes an early antislavery newspaper, The Genius of Universal Emancipation. -
Quaker
Lucretia became a Quaker Minister in 1821. -
The American Colonization Society
The American Colonization Society founds Liberia as a colony for free blacks from the United States -
Women rights
"The Red Harlot of Infidelity," Frances Wright, arrives from Scotland, and lectures publicly on birth control, women's rights, and abolition. -
Philadelphia
Lucretia Mott was elected clerk of Philadelphia Woman's Yearly Meeting -
American Anti-Slavery Society
Her husband helped to find the American Anti-Slavery Society -
The American Anti-slavery Society
The American Anti-slavery Society is founded in Philadelphia. -
Mount Holyoke
Mary Lyon opens the first women's college, Mount Holyoke, in South Hadley, Massachusetts. -
The World's Antislavery Convention of 1840
A New York abolitionist newspaper called for a convention to unite the efforts of national anti-slavery forces from around the world. In the summer of 1840, the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society answered the call. -
Women
Lucretia Mott published her speech on Discourse on Women -
Women's rights
Elected president of Woman's Rights Convention in Syracuse, New York -
Slavery
She joins with Wendell Phillips against William Lloyd Garrison supporting non-resistance and need to keep opposing slavery -
American Rights Association
In 1866, Lucretia, Elizabeth Candy Stanton, and Lucy Stone established the American Rights Association. -
Deceased
Lucretia Mott died on November 11, 1880.
