Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America

by Carol Faulkner

Book Overview

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 such as 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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812243218
• ISBN13: 9780812243215
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"