On the Worcester Women's History Project has a short brief paragraph about Lucretia Mott then has a link to a diary of her experiences. In this paragraph it describes Lucretia Mott as a "preacher and independent thinker". It tells of her she founded the Philadelphia Female Anti- slavery Society and then led to be picked to the delegation of women too the 1840 world Anti Slavery Convention in London. But was then denied to partticapatipon. She keep a diary and this is the link it follows.
The organization that runs the website is the Worcester Women's Project. Founded in 1994 small group of women to raise awareness of the importance of the first National Woman's Rights Convention and to highlight the role of Worcester-- a center of radical abolitionist activity and the site of the first National Woman's Rights Convention in 1850-in the women's rights movement. Their vision was to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the 1850 convention in 2000, which vision became realized in Women 2000.
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