A look at abolitionist, suffragist Lucretia Mott at next session of IRP

Wednesday, February 15, 2012, By Eileen Jevis

At the Feb. 16 session of the (IRP), Carol Faulkner, associate professor and chair of the Department of History at 黑料不打烊鈥檚 Maxwell School, will discuss Lucretia Mott and the Seneca Falls Convention.

Mott, a Quaker minister who was dubbed by fellow suffragists as the 鈥渕oving spirit鈥 of the 1848 women鈥檚 rights convention in Seneca Falls, may have been one of the most famous, yet little known, figures in the suffragist movement.

Faulkner, whose specialty is 19th-century America, U.S. women, gender, sexuality and social movements, received a Ph.D. from Binghamton University. She is the author of several articles and books including, 鈥淟ucretia Mott鈥檚 Heresy: Abolition and Women鈥檚 Rights in Nineteenth-Century America;鈥 鈥淲omen in American History to 1880: A Documentary Reader,鈥 and 鈥淲omen鈥檚 Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen鈥檚 Aid Movement.鈥

The IRP program runs from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., and is free and open to the public. IRP sessions are held at the First Baptist Church of 黑料不打烊, 5833 East Seneca Turnpike, Jamesville. For more information, call 443-4846 or e-mail cmkarlho@syr.edu.