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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Faulkner, Carol (1969-....)
Titre(s) : Lucretia Mott's heresy [Texte imprimé] : abolition and women's rights in nineteenth-century America / Carol Faulkner
Publication : Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, cop. 2011
Description matérielle : 291 p., [8] pages of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm
Comprend : Heretic and saint ; Nantucket ; Nine partners ; Schism ; Immediate abolition ;
Pennsylvania Hall ; Abroad ; Crisis ; The year 1848 ; Conventions ; Fugitives
; Civil War ; Peace.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-264) and index
"Lucretia Coffin Mott was one of the most famous and controversial women in nineteenth-century
America. Now overshadowed by abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison and feminists
like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mott was viewed in her time as a dominant figure in the
dual struggles for racial and sexual equality. History has often depicted her as a
gentle Quaker lady and a mother figure, but her outspoken challenges to authority
riled ministers, journalists, politicians, urban mobs, and her fellow Quakers. In
the first biography of Mott in thirty years, historian Carol Faulkner reveals the
motivations of this radical egalitarian from Nantucket. Mott's deep faith and ties
to the Society of Friends do not fully explain her activism- her roots in post-Revolutionary
New England also shaped her views on slavery, patriarchy, and the church, as well
as her expansive interests in peace, temperance, prison reform, religious freedom,
and Native American rights. While Mott was known as the 'moving spirit' of the first
women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, her commitment to women's rights never
trumped her support for abolition or racial equality. She envisioned women's rights
not as a new and separate movement but rather as an extension of the universal principles
of liberty and equality. Mott was among the first white Americans to call for an immediate
end to slavery. Her long-term collaboration with white and black women in the Philadelphia
Female Anti-Slavery Society was remarkable by any standards. This book reintroduces
readers to an amazing woman whose work and ideas inspired the transformation of American
society."-- From publisher's description
Sujet(s) : Mott, Lucretia (1793-1880)
Droits des femmes -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle
Mouvements antiesclavagistes -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780812243215 (hbk.). - ISBN 0812243218 (hbk.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42689953p
Notice n° :
FRBNF42689953
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