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Refugees from Russian atrocities, they got a rough-and-ready welcome
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By Henry Trachtenberg
THIS year is the 125th anniversary of a significant event in Winnipeg's social and ethno-cultural history -- the 1882 arrival in the Manitoba capital of about 350 Russian Jewish refugees, who were fleeing physical attack and political persecution.
Their arrival marked the real beginning of the Winnipeg Jewish community.
'[O]ur lives and wealth are every minute in danger .... Such persecutions and cruelties never happened before in this civilized generation. Men and women have been slaughtered; the female sex have been ...
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Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History
; Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott. Edited by Beverly Wilson...aids: a chronology of Mott's life; a biographical directory that identifies Mott's correspondents and...predecessor, James and Lucretia Mott: Life and Letters...
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Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History
; ...with many useful aids: a chronology of Mott's life; a biographical directory that identifies Mott's correspondents and individuals mentioned...is similar to its predecessor, James and Lucretia Mott: Life and Letters, edited by Mott's...
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Lucretia Mott and the Beginnings of the Women's Revolution
Magazine article from: Peacework
; ...Spirit moved her. The audience listened as Lucretia Mott spoke on and on about peace, the sin of slavery...Douglass, abolitionist, called out, "Goodbye, dear Lucretia." Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793-1880) lived for three more years after...
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Abolitionists who led the way.(including Arthur and Lewis Tappan, Catherine Mott and Lucretia Mott)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Cobblestone
; ...movement also attracted white women. Catherine Coffin, wife of Levi Coffin (see the article on page 19), was actively involved. Quaker Lucretia Mott initially was refused admittance to an 1840 antislavery...
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REP. ARCURI RESOLUTION HONORING SUFFRAGETTE MARTHA COFFIN WRIGHT PASSES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...suffragist Martha Coffin Wright on the...with her sister Lucretia Coffin Mott and activist Elizabeth...1824, Martha Coffin married Peter...s older sister Lucretia Coffin Mott, a prominent...visit, Martha, Lucretia, and Elizabeth...
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REP. ARCURI HONORS SUFFRAGETTE MARTHA COFFIN WRIGHT
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...honoring suffragette Martha Coffin Wright on the 200th anniversary...Wright, with her sister Lucretia Coffin Mott and activist Elizabeth...and with her sister Lucretia attended the founding...sister of Lucretia Coffin Mott, was one of five organizers...
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REP. ACKERMAN HONORS SUFFRAGETTE MARTHA COFFIN WRIGHT
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...legacy of suffragette Martha Coffin Wright and her recent induction...of this country as Martha Coffin Wright," said Ackerman...this initiative." Martha Coffin Wright, with her sister Lucretia Coffin Mott and activist Elizabeth Cady...
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 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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ABOLITION HALL OF FAME WILL NAME FOUR INDUCTEES.(Neighbors Madison)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
; ...were Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Lucretia Mott, Gerrit Smith and Harriet Tubman. These first five...Abbott Oakes, a sponsor of the banner for inductee Lucretia Coffin Mott, at the National Abolition Hall of Fame commemoration...
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"There is no true peace that is not founded on justice and right."
Magazine article from: Peacework
; --1876, Lucretia Coffin Mott, founding feminist for whom the Equal Rights Amendment was...relished a good fight; her best weapon was India ink. And Lucretia, dear Lucretia. She had it right a hundred years ago. Model mother and Quaker...
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Quakerism, ministry, marriage, and divorce: the ordeal of Priscilla Hunt Cadwalader.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Early Republic
; ...children of Matthew and Hannah (Mendenhall) Coffin. Matthew Coffin was born on Nantucket, and had come as...known abolitionists Levi and Vestal Coffin; abolitionist-feminist Lucretia Coffin Mott was a distant relative. In March 1811...
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