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Lucretia Mott
b. 1793, Nantucket, Massachusetts; d. 1880, near Abington, PennsylvaniaBorn into a family of Quakers, Lucretia Mott became a minister of the faith in 1821. Her experience as a teacher in a Quaker school, where she received half the... Read more
Lucy Stone
b. 1818, West Brookfield, Massachusetts; d. 1893, BostonLucy Stone, mother of well-known suffragist Alice Stone Blackwell, was the first woman in Massachusetts to earn a college degree (1847) and the first in the United States to... Read more
Frances Wright
b. 1795, Dundee, Scotland; d. 1852, CincinnatiAfter converting to Owenism—a utopian socialist philosophy developed and promoted by Robert Owen—Fanny Wright founded a socialist community in 1825 on 2,000 acres of woodland near Memphis, Tennessee. Calling her... Read more
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