Julie L. Holcomb: 177 years ago, the Seneca Falls Convention kicked off the fight for women’s suffrage – an iconic moment deeply shaped by Quaker beliefs on gender and equality
Real change, Lucretia Mott believed, would require going to the root of the problem: “mindless tradition and savage greed.”
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Patricia A. Nugent: Lucretia Mott — “The Lioness of the Convention”
“It’s the will of God,” the men argued, waving Bibles in her face. But she knew better; she was a minister, after all. Yet she was not allowed to speak. … Continue reading
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