“The Moving Spirit” - Lucretia Mott at Seneca Falls 

Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Image source: New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1890-1960.

POSTPONED

Please note: originally scheduled for  May 11,  this event will be rescheduled to a later date due to the current health concerns and recommendations of the state and federal government.

Reception: 4:30 P.M.
featuring "Seward's Folly" and other regional favorites from Prison City Brewing

Program: 5:30 P.M.

Equal Rights Heritage Center
25 South Street, Auburn, NY 13021

Drawing from Lucretia Mott’s experience as a Quaker minister, abolitionist, and reformer, hear celebrated author and historian Carol Faulkner explore her distinctive perspective on the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention. Information on resources related to abolition, anti-slavery and the Civil War housed in local collections, as well as the New York State Archives, will be made available. The interactive “Seeing Equal Rights in NYS” exhibit – showcasing the creative ways New Yorkers organized to stand for justice from the 1800s to modern day – will also be on display.

NOTE: Program is free and open to the public; RSVPs strongly encouraged.

About the Speaker

Carol Faulkner is Professor of History and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. She received her BA from Yale University, and her PhD from SUNY Binghamton. She is the author of Women’s Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen’s Aid Movement (2004), Lucretia Mott’s Heresy: Abolition and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America (2011), and Unfaithful: Love, Adultery, and Marriage Reform in Nineteenth-Century America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019). She is the co-editor of The Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott, Interconnections: Gender and Race in American History, and Lucretia Mott Speaks: The Essential Speeches and Sermons (University of Illinois Press, 2017).