Quaker Woman Minister Lucretia Mott ~ An Interview with Beverly Wilson Palmer

I have no idea, because I am a non-resistant, of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity. Quakerism, as I understand it, does not mean quietism. The early Friends were agitators; disturbers of the peace; and were more obnoxious in their day to charges, which are now so freely made, than we are.

 

~~Lucretia Mott

(Remarks delivered at the 24th annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, October 25-26, 1860)

Lucretia Mott (January 3rd, 1793 ~ November 11th, 1880)) is  one of the greatest if not the greatest Quaker woman minister of the 19th century.  She was dedicated to almost every form of social reform in the 19th century but especially to the abolition of slavery and women's rights. Beverly Wilson Palmer, the editor of the Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott shares her insights into the life and legacy of Lucretia Mott.  Beverly will also be one of our major speakers at the upcoming 4th Annual Quaker Genealogy & History Conference entitled "A Woman's Place . . . Southwest Ohio Quaker Women & Reform Movements, 1800-1860," Thursday through Sunday, April 24th-27th, 2008.

For the full schedule & registration materials & information go to our library webpage: http://www.mlcook.lib.oh.us/Pages/history_conference.html.

PLEASE NOTE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTY:  Increase volume when interviewer asks questions.  Thank you.

Our intro music is Mozart's Violin Concerto in G, Third Movement Rondeau, K 216, performed by David Oistrakh.  Used with permission, see Internet Archive, http://www.archive.org/index.php. 

 
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