Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott - Couverture rigide

Mott, Lucretia Coffin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0252026748 ISBN 13 : 9780252026744

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2002

Synopsis

This landmark volume collects Lucretia Mott's correspondence for the first time, highlighting the length and breadth of her work as an activist dedicated to reform of almost every kind and providing an intimate glimpse of her family life.

Mott's achievements left a mark on reform movements from abolition to women's rights. The letters cover her work in these causes as well as her founding of key antislavery organizations; her friendships with Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth; her efforts to bring Quakers into the abolitionist movement; and her part in organizing the 1848 Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention. Other correspondence cover her fifty-six-year marriage, the five children she raised to adulthood, and informal insights and news with and about her cherished family.

An invaluable resource, Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott reveals the incisive mind, sense of mission, and level-headed personality that made this extraordinary figure a major force in nineteenth-century American life.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Beverly Wilson Palmer is a research associate at Pomona College and the editor or coeditor of numerous documentary editions, including Lucretia Mott Speaks: The Essential Speeches and Sermons and The Selected Letters of Charles Sumner.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252026748
• ISBN 13: 9780252026744
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 640
• Éditeur: Wilson Palmer Beverly
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