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Lucretia Mott was born on January 3, 1793 in Nantucket, Massachusetts
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The Embargo of 1807 prohibits US exports to Britian and France to protest interference with American shipping. In effect gor 18 months it produced smuggling and unemployment
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A slave insurrection in Louisiana results in the deaths of some 75 slaves
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Lucretia Mott marries James Mott in 1811.
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The American Colonization society was established to transport free blacks to Africa.
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The Missouri compromise prohibited slavery north of 36 degrees, 30 minutes north latitude. Missouri is admitted as a slave state, and Maine is admitted as a free state.
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Benjamin Lundy publishes an early antislavery newspaper, The Genius of Universal Emancipation.
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Lucretia became a Quaker Minister in 1821.
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The American Colonization Society founds Liberia as a colony for free blacks from the United States
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"The Red Harlot of Infidelity," Frances Wright, arrives from Scotland, and lectures publicly on birth control, women's rights, and abolition.
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Lucretia Mott was elected clerk of Philadelphia Woman's Yearly Meeting
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Her husband helped to find the American Anti-Slavery Society
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The American Anti-slavery Society is founded in Philadelphia.
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Mary Lyon opens the first women's college, Mount Holyoke, in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
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A New York abolitionist newspaper called for a convention to unite the efforts of national anti-slavery forces from around the world. In the summer of 1840, the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society answered the call.
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Lucretia Mott published her speech on Discourse on Women
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Elected president of Woman's Rights Convention in Syracuse, New York
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She joins with Wendell Phillips against William Lloyd Garrison supporting non-resistance and need to keep opposing slavery
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In 1866, Lucretia, Elizabeth Candy Stanton, and Lucy Stone established the American Rights Association.
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Lucretia Mott died on November 11, 1880.
