Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century AmericaLucretia Coffin Mott was one of the most famous and controversial women in nineteenth century America. Now overshadowed by abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison and feminists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mott was viewed in her time as a dominant figure in the dual struggles for racial and sexual equality. History has often depicted her as a gentle Quaker lady and a mother figure, but her outspoken challenges to authority riled ministers,