Lucretia Mott's Heresy

Carol Faulkner is Associate Professor of History at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, and author of Women's Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen's Aid Movement, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

• Introduction: Heretic and Saint1 Nantucket2 Nine Partners3 Schism4 Immediate Abolition5 Pennsylvania Hall6 Abroad7 Crisis8 The Year 18489 Conventions10 Fugitives11 Civil War12 PeaceEpilogueNotesIndexAcknowledgmentsGallery appears after page 108

"This is the first biography of Mott in thirty years, and it proves to be thoroughly researched, well written, and fascinating. Faulkner's accessible writing style makes this book appropriate for any reader interested in women's history generally or the history of the U.S. abolitionist and women's suffrage movements." (Library Journal) "Mott did not make her biographer's task easy; except for a three- month period in 1840, she kept no diary, and although, like her compatriot Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she often spoke publicly, unlike Stanton, she seldom wrote for publication. Faulkner has more than met the challenge; her book is interesting and well written, offering fresh perspectives at every turn on Mott's roles within Quakerism and the antislavery and women's rights movements while also providing glimpses of her personal life. . . . With this timely book, Faulkner makes a compelling case for Mott's contemporary significance." (Journal of American History) "This much-needed, coherently argued, and beautifully written biography does justice to Mott's centrality to the history of antislavery, woman's rights, Quakerism, and Philadelphia." (Lori D. Ginzberg, author of Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life) "Lucretia Mott is as important to the birth of the women's rights movement as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Sophisticated, lively, direct, and often riveting, Lucretia Mott's Heresy will be the definitive biography of Mott for decades to come." (Bruce Dorsey, author of Reforming Men and Women: Gender in the Antebellum City)