Primary Sources
Letter to Nathaniel Barney (1847)
Surviving letters from Lucretia Mott in the 1840s and 1850s to Nathaniel Barney (1792-1869), a Nantucket oil and candle manufacturer, illustrate criticisms that the two shared toward their fellow Quakers' conservatism. Mott felt free to disgorge her frustrations with Friends' apathy on current social issues to her sympathetic cousin, Nathaniel Barney. In this letter of June 7, 1847, Mott recollects a confrontation with one of her strongest critics from the New York Hicksite Meeting, minister George F. White (1789-1847). http://www.mott.pomona.edu/lettertonbarney.htm Discourse on Women - Dec. 17, 1849 https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/2017/03/21/discourse-on-women-dec-17-1849/ Why Should Not Woman Seek to Be a Reformer? - Oct. 18, 1854 Mott delivered this speech at the 5th National Woman's Rights Convention. https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/2020/10/16/why-should-not-woman-seek-to-be-a-reformer-oct-18-1854/ |