Lucretia MottThe daughter of a Nantucket sea captain, Lucretia Mott exhibited, from her earliest years, an extraordinary confidence and eloquence. As an adult, she dared to speak out to all-male audiences and refused to be silenced when she was attacked by protestors or when meeting halls where her organizations were to gather were burned down. In her later years, Mott became an advisor to presidents and a colleague to such activists as Frederick Douglas, Susan B. Anthony, and Sojourner Truth. |
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Contents
1 The Beginning | 15 |
2 The House on Fair Street | 20 |
3 First Lessons | 27 |
4 Wider Worlds | 32 |
5 New Ports | 41 |
6 School Days | 48 |
7 I Take Thee James | 55 |
8 Hard Times | 62 |
18 A Concern to Speak | 129 |
19 Visitors | 135 |
20 Strangers of a Certain Description | 140 |
21 Convalescent Years | 146 |
22 Age of Revolutions | 155 |
23 On the Move | 166 |
24 Roadside | 174 |
25 James and Self | 182 |
9 The Growingup Years | 69 |
10 Making Things Honest | 75 |
11 Philadelphia Winter | 82 |
12 Remember the Slave | 87 |
13 Philoprogenitiveness | 92 |
14 A Searching Time | 99 |
15 The Times That Try Mens Souls | 108 |
16 The Worlds Convention | 114 |
17 From Queen Victorias Land | 123 |
26 The Day of Jubilee | 190 |
27 The Postwar World | 198 |
28 A Light Goes Out | 205 |
29 I Mean to Live As Long As I Can | 212 |
Lucretia Motts Contemporaries | 221 |
Acknowledgments | 227 |
Bibliography | 229 |
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