Abolition

Ona Judge on Freedom

In: 17th Century Women, Abolition, Women's Rights, Writing

Tagged: Book Review, Colonial American, Martha Washington, Slavery

This is a special guest post in honor of BlackRead More →

Jane Grey Swisshelm on Congressional Behavior

In: 19th Century Women, Abolition, Activists, Authors, Civil War, Journalists, Women's Rights, Writing

Tagged: Compromise of 1850, Congressional reporting, Slavery

JANE GREY SWISSHELM (December 6, 1815 -July 22, 1884) wasRead More →

Harriet Martineau on American Women

In: 19th Century Women, Abolition, Activists, Authors, Education, Journalists, Women's Rights

Tagged: British writer, democracy, Novelists, Sociologist

Meet the woman who sold more novels than Charles Dickens.Read More →

Anna E. Dickinson: On Fame

In: 19th Century Women, Abolition, Activists, Civil War, Women's Rights, Writing

Tagged: fame, orator

Anna Dickinson (1842-1932) was a major celebrity of her time.Read More →

Anna Elizabeth Dickinson: America’s Shining Star

In: 19th Century Women, Abolition, Activists, Civil War, Women's Rights

Once upon a time, Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (1842 to 1932)Read More →

Laura Towne on Repairing Books

In: 19th Century Women, Abolition, Civil War, Education

Tagged: Slavery, Teaching, Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania

Laura Matilda Towne was a trained homeopathic physician. However, she was also an abolitionist. When calls went out for volunteers to help the freed slaves in the Sea Islands of South Carolina, Towne volunteered to go.Read More →

Mary Ashton Livermore on Autobiography

In: 19th Century Women, Abolition, Activists, Civil War, Literature, Poets, Women's Rights

Tagged: Agitaor, American Women's Suffrage, Association for the Advancement of Women, Autobiography, Lecturer, Republican Party, Women's Magazine

Mary Ashton Livermore was an author and poet, a noted journalist, abolitionist, public lecturer, and women’s right’s advocate. Read More →

Sojourner Truth in Her Own Words

In: 19th Century Women, Abolition, Civil War

Tagged: Dialect, Frederick Douglass, Recording Spoken Words, Slavery, Slavery in New York, Sojourner Truth Project, Utopian Communities, William Garrison

Which is more important – the words or how theyRead More →

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper on Racial Uplift

In: 19th Century Women, Abolition, Civil War, Literature

Tagged: 15th Amendment, Poetry, Reconstruction, Slavery, Woman's Rights

“I ask no monument, proud and high to arrest theRead More →

Charlotte Forten Grimke on Books

In: 19th Century Women, Abolition, Civil War, Writing

Tagged: Diary, Reading

Charlotte Forten Grimke was born in 1838 to a wealthyRead More →

Lucretia Mott on Truth

In: Abolition, Education, Women's Rights

Tagged: Female Education, Female Medical College, Seneca Falls, Swarthmore College, Truth, Woman's Rights

The Quaker minister, Lucretia Mott, lived from 1793 to 1880.Read More →

Harriet Tubman on Slavery is the Next Thing to Hell

In: 19th Century Women, Abolition, Civil War, News, Writing

Tagged: Attribution, Harriet Tubman, Slavery

Harriet Tubman (1822-1913) was recognized as a hero in herRead More →