Born on November 12, 1815 in New York, Stanton was the daughter of Margaret Livingston and Daniel Cady. A very well educated woman, Stanton would marry abolitionist lecturer Henry Stanton. Stanton would also join the abolitionist cause with leading figures like William Lloyd Garrison and Sarah and Angelina Grimke. Stanton would travel to London in 1840 for her honeymoon as well as to attend the Anti-Slavery Convention but would not be allowed to speak or vote while men were allowed to do so.
Elizabeth Cady-Stanton
Born January 3, 1793 in Massachusetts, Mott was the second child of Thomas Coffin Jr. and Anna Folger Mott. Raised on religion, Mott was a Quaker and attended a Quaker boarding school. In later years Mott would become a teacher and along with her supportive husband Mott, argued for the abolitionist cause as members of William Lloyd Garrison’s American Anti-Slavery Society in the 1830's. Mott would attend the 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention in London but would not be allowed to speak nor vote.
It would during the 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention in London that these two women would meet.
Lucretia Mott