Abolition - Women's Involvement in the Anti-Slavery Movement
The first day of the 1840 World's Anti-Slavery Convention was dominated by wrangling over the participation of women. Campaigners Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Stanton had been included as official members of the American delegation but, as it was contrary to English custom to allow women to participate in public discussions, they were barred from taking part and sent to the public galleries. Haydon, who had planned to place Mott prominently in his painting also sidelined her when he found her freethinking religious beliefs to his dislike.
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