Lucretia Mott

Lucretia Mott was a Quaker activist against slavery and for women's rights.

"In America she helped organize women's abolitionist societies, since the anti-slavery organizations would not admit women as members. In 1840, she was selected as a delegate to the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London, which she found controlled by anti-slavery factions opposed to public speaking and action by women. Elizabeth Cady Stanton later credited conversations with Lucretia Mott, while seated in the segregated women's section, with the idea of the holding a women's rights convention."

Their women's rights convention, also known as the Seneca Falls Convention, is an important moment in American history, especially where the women's rights movement is concerned. Frederick Douglass attended, along with about 200 other people.

At this convention, The Declaration of Sentiments was formed. You can read a report of the Convention.