Martha Coffin Wright

Overview

Martha Coffin Wright born Boston, MA December 25, 1806 (d. 1875). Quaker abolitionist; feminist; organizer of Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention, 1848; conductor on Underground Railroad; president of many women's rights conventions.

Quotations

"In union [of women] there is strength." (to Lucy Stone, Aug. 22, 1869, in Bolt, The Women's Movements, p. 122; phto wikicommons nat. park service pd)