Antebellum Social Reformer Lucretia Mott
Lectures in History
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🗓️ 13 December 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 1:01.0 | This is American History TV's Lectures in History podcast. This week, University of Texas at Arlington professor Stephanie Cole teaches a class on the life and work of Antebellum |
| 1:06.3 | Social Reformer Lucretia Mott. Today's class is doing a couple different things for us. |
| 1:12.7 | I'm going to tell you about the history of Lucretia Coffin-Mott, who was a noted antebellum |
| 1:18.9 | reformer, one of the most famous women of her day. |
| 1:23.1 | And she was noted because she was an activist in the cause against slavery. |
| 1:26.9 | She was a famous abolitionist. |
| 1:29.2 | She opposed Indian removal and stood up for Native American rights. |
| 1:34.1 | She was an attendee at the First Woman's Rights Convention and a frequent speaker at the women's rights meetings through the 1850s. |
| 1:43.0 | And she spoke on a number of other causes as well, major and minor |
| 1:47.7 | of her day. She believed in religious tolerance. She believed in temperance and a number of other |
| 1:52.9 | the social causes of her day. And so I'm going to talk about her, but I'm doing a couple of other things for you here, too. |
| 2:04.0 | A premise of this course is the idea that you must understand women reformers in their |
| 2:11.2 | context of their day. And so I'm going to trace her personal context, which is very important. She was a Quaker, and I'll talk about what that means, |
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