USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793–1880) was a Quaker minister, abolitionist, social reformer, and proponent of women’s rights. She is sometimes credited with being the first American feminist, but was more accurately one of the first political advocates for women in the early nineteenth century.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1821, in recognition of her powerful speaking abilities, Lucretia Mott became a Quaker minister. In 1827, the Motts and other Hicksite Quakers, followers of the minister Elias Hicks, split from their parent organization to take a stronger antislavery stand.

Detailed explanation-3: -As an ardent abolitionist, she helped found the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society in 1833. She also co-wrote the Declaration of Sentiments in 1848 for the first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, which ignited the fight for women’s suffrage.

Detailed explanation-4: -Women such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) and Carrie Catt (1859-1947) were dedicated abolitionists who helped begin the Women’s Rights Movement.

Detailed explanation-5: -Frederick Douglass was one of the few men present at the pioneer woman’s rights convention held at Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848. His support of women’s rights never wavered although in 1869 he publicly disagreed with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B.