Lucretia Coffin Mott was a famous American feminist and social reformer in the nineteenth-century America. Though pictured in history as a gentle Quaker lady, her activities infuriated ministers, journalists, politicians, urban mobs, and even her fellow Quakers. From her home in Philadelphia, she travelled usually accompanied by her husband who supported her activism and made speeches supporting abolition. She often sheltered runaway slaves in her home. She helped organize women's abolitionist societies, since the anti-slavery organizations would not admit women as members. Selected as a delegate to the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London, she discovered that it was controlled by anti-slavery factions opposed to public speaking and action by women. She became the "moving spirit" of the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls. Her commitment to women's rights never came in the way or diluted her support for abolition or racial equality. She envisioned women's rights not as a new and separate movement but rather as an extension of the universal principles of liberty and equality. Her long-term collaboration with white and black women in the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society was remarkable. She was a pacifist too and opposed the war with Mexico.