Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott
- ISBN-10
- 0252026748
- ISBN-13
- 9780252026744
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 580
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Author
- Lucretia Mott
Description
"Dedicated to reform of almost every kind - temperance, peace, equal rights, woman suffrage, nonresistance, and the abolition of slavery - Mott viewed women's rights as only one element of a broad-based reform agenda for American society.
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