Peace Now! Great American Pacifists
First episode of the new podcast, which will devote an episode each to figures such as Lucretia Mott, William Lloyd Garrison, Dorothy Day, Bayard Rustin, and Judith Butler.
Peace Now! Great American Pacifists
Lucretia Mott and the Post-War Peace Movement
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Little Crispy
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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A hero of Thoreau and Emerson ("Civil Disobedience" is Lucretia Mott without Jesus), spearhead of abolitionism, feminism (a convener of Seneca Falls), and pacifism. One of the greatest persons and personalities America has produced. I use her sermons to talk about the crisis of pacifism produced by the Civil War.