Talk About Growing Up Fast
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Talk About Growing Up Fast
Lucretia was always shocked by the “horrors” of slavery that she read in the English Quaker and author, Priscilla Wakefield’s, “Mental Improvement” (1819). She also regularly attended Quaker meetings as a child, where everyone would sit in silence, until the “holy spirit” prompted someone to speak/testify. Lucretia’s father, Thomas Coffin Jr.’s ship had been captured by a Spanish man-of-war in 1802, so he retired and moved the whole family to Boston.