Lucretia Mott

She was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on January 3rd,1793. When she was a child, she went to a boarding school until she became a teacher at her same school. Her interese in women's rights was when she realized that at the same school, the male workers were being paid double than the female workers. When marrying her husband,James Mott, She bacame a Quaker minister. The couple were very opposed to the slave trade and anti-semetic acts. In 1848, she traveled with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone to England to attend the anti-slavey convention. There, she weas not allowed to speak,simply because they were women. They went back to the United States,they organized the  American Equal Rights Association. This organization gave woices to the opressed citizens such as women and african- americans.