Lucretia Mott

Lucretia Mott was an American Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist and social reformer. Excluded with other women from the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840, she formed the idea of reforming the position of women in society, and in 1848 Jane Hunt invited her to the meeting that led to the Seneca Falls Convention, where the Declaration of Sentiments was written. A Quaker preacher in her early adulthood, she advocated the vote for black people, both male and female, and her home with her husband James Mott was a stop on the Underground Railroad. She helped found the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania and Swarthmore College.