Her home with James was a stop on the Underground Railroad. She advocated giving blacks, both male and female, the right to vote (suffrage). Her speaking abilities made her an important abolitionist, feminist, and reformer she had been a Quaker preacher early in her adulthood. In 1848, she was invited by Jane Hunt to a meeting that led to the first public gathering about women's rights, the Seneca Falls Convention, during which the Declaration of Sentiments was written. She had formed the idea of reforming the position of women in society when she was amongst the women excluded from the World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London in 1840. Lucretia Mott (née Coffin Janu– November 11, 1880) was an American Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer.
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