March 20‚ 2013 History 1 Lucretia Mott (Martin) Lucretia Mott was born on January 3‚ 1793 in Nantucket‚ Massachusetts. She was born to Ana Folger and Thomas Coffin. Her parents had eight children. When Mott was thirteen she was sent to a Quaker Boarding school in Dutchess County‚ NY. After she graduated she became a teacher there. Once Mott discovered that males were paid three times more than females she became very interested in woman’s rights. Mott was antislavery‚ and because
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Lucretia Mott was fortunate to have been born to have been born into a Massachusetts Quaker family in the late 18th century. The women in this colony were quite independent‚ and Lucretia grew up with self-sufficiency. Quakers generally saw and treated women as equals in their religious-based society‚ which was considerable given the time period. This meant that girls were able to receive an education which created many opportunities for them within their organization‚ and Lucretia took advantage
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Lucretia Mott’s Discourse on Women Speech Bibliographical Entry: "Lucretia Mott Speech." Lucretia Mott Speech. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 13 Mar. 2013. Synopsis of Argument: The general argument made by Lucretia Mott in her speech Discourse on Women‚ on December 17‚ 1849‚ is that women are hidden from certain parts of society. More specifically‚ she argues that women let their guards down when approached with a decisive man. She writes‚ “she needs all the encouragement she can receive.” In this passage‚
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Lucretia Mott “All men are born equally free” (Salmon P. Chase). Nowadays‚ this simple statement is a part of our everyday thought. Back in the 1800’s‚ it was the complete opposite. African American’s were not treated equally; they were forced as slaves with no rights or opinions. Women also were not treated equally; they were deprived of rights that men had such as the ability to vote. Many people were outraged and fought out in a violent way‚ such as the civil war. Yet others had a different
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Response Paper: Rape of Lucretia The Rape of Lucretia is a legend that was important to the Romans. It was a tragedy about a Roman matron woman who commits suicide. The story is important because it expresses the role of married women in the Roman civilization. It describes what behavior the Romans considered appropriate for a typical Roman wife. From reading this excerpt from the History of Rome‚ one learns that a women’s worth is based on their virtue‚ men considered their wives as possessions
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Western Civ 12/20 Lucretia Paper Roman culture was largely based on the citizens’ honor. Honor was one of the most important aspects of a Roman citizen’s life. Honor was very important to Roman society. Lucretia displayed her honor in two ways‚ first she served Sextus Tarquinius and his men‚ and then she killed herself after being raped by Sextus Tarquinius‚ the son of the king. “I will absolve myself of blame‚ and I will not free myself from punishment. No women shall use Lucretia as her example
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12‚ 1815. She became interested in women’s rights and equality because her father had always given more attention to her brother. Because of that‚ in school she went for the things that men would usually be seen doing. Lucretia Mott was born January 3‚ 1793 in Massachusetts. Lucretia had always been a social rights activist and had always opposed slavery. She wanted to make a difference in the world and change it for the better. These two women met at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London‚ in
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feminists of a sort and fought for the right to vote and the ability to get a job and earn a wage‚ as any man would. Equality and political rights were important to many women‚ such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott; Mott is widely known as the mother of feminism. Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the Seneca Falls Convention‚ a two day long women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls‚ New
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women for so long. The July 19th and 20th Seneca Falls convention would be the documented beginning of the struggle for women’s rights. Although there were many abolitionists and supporters of the women’s rights movement‚ Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott came to be remembered as the most significant. In 1840 they first met and created a bond at the World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London. They both‚ along with five other women‚ were asked by William Lloyd Garrison to attend. However‚ when
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Americans. For instance‚ the women’s movement began after the female community‚ caught up in the fervor of the awakening‚ realized they too could ’purify’ the country. Several leaders began to emerge such as Susan B Anthony‚ Catharine Beecher‚ Lucretia Mott‚ and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. These women sought to gain women’s suffrage‚ freedom from their male spouses‚ rights to work and to be educated‚ rights to property‚ and representation in the government which they had taxed to support. In 1848‚ they
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