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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 14., Lucretia Mott. (search)

d because most of the conversations at the meetings are neither interesting nor instructive, much of it being what is called gossip. She and her husband both took part in the momentous Separation among Friends, some following the teachings of Elias Hicks, others remaining Orthodox. This took place in or near 1827. During this time, from about 1820-1830, James Mott was engaged in the domestic commission business, including the sale of cotton, then considered a legitimate article of merchandise, even by anti-slavery people. It was a popular and very profitable business. But the powerful preaching of Elias Hicks against any voluntary participation with slavery was arousing Friends to an understanding of the subject, and led many to unite with him in abstinence from the products of slave labor. James and Lucretia Mott resolved, so far as their household was concerned, to make things honest in this respect. This involved many daily discomforts and annoyances and not a few sacrifice

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