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Lucretia Mott Evaluates the Talent Pool
Quaker abolitionist and women's rights advocate Lucretia Coffin Mott presided over the Seneca Falls Convention in July 1848. Three months later she wrote to Elizabeth Cady Stanton requesting Stanton's help to hold a "Woman's Rights' Meeting" in Philadelphia. She suggested feminist works that Stanton could consult for a history she was planning to write and expressed frustration that friends Angelina and Sarah Grimké are undependable -- "after such a flash & such an effectual extinguishment." |