Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Heretic and Saint -- Chapter 1. Nantucket -- Chapter 2. Nine Partners -- Chapter 3. Schism -- Chapter 4. Immediate Abolition -- Chapter 5. Pennsylvania Hall -- Chapter 6. Abroad -- Chapter 7. Crisis -- Chapter 8. The Year 1848 -- Chapter 9. Conventions -- Chapter 10. Fugitives -- Chapter 11. Civil War -- Chapter 12. Peace -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
Lucretia Coffin Mott was one of the most famous and controversial women in nineteenth-century America. Now overshadowed by abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison and feminists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mott was viewed in her time as a dominant figure in the dual struggles for racial and sexual equality. History has often depicted her as a gentle Quaker lady and a mother figure, but her outspoken challenges to authority riled ministers, journalists, politicians, urban mobs, and her fellow Quakers. -- Publisher's description
