"The first such effort resulted in the organization of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society, founded only a few months after the AASS. One of its main organizers was Lucretia Mott, who recalled later that, at the time of the founding, she had no idea of how to conduct a meeting. She said she had "no idea of the meaning of preambles and resolutions and votings." Women were seldom in assemblies of any kind and she had attended only one other convention before, "of colored people in this State.""
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AbolitionistsSocial activistsWomen activists from the United StatesWomen's rights activistsActivists from Massachusetts
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Bettina Aptheker Woman's Legacy: Essays on Race, Sex, and Class in American History (1982)
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Lucretia Mott
Lucretia Mott (January 3, 1793 – November 11, 1880) was a Quaker abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer who lived in the USA.
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