Happy Birthday to Lucretia Coffin Mott, the preeminent social reformer, abolitionist, women’s rights activist, Quaker preacher, born this day–January 3rd–on Nantucket Islandc in 1793. The photo is from an out-of-print book I found in a used bookstore. Beside it is a profile written by Lucretia Mott’s great-granddaughter Anna Lord Strauss that reads in part: “She was fearless in her approach, and her calmness and skill combined with her quiet humor, earnestness and dignity won over many adherents. . . .Her clear logic, her keen analytical mind, her eloquence, and her healthy balance of good qualities were dedicated to the rights of humanity.”
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