women abolitionists

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women abolitionists

Lucretia Mott

2001
Biography of abolitionist and woman suffragist Lucretia Mott.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

2001
An illustrated biography of American women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton that describes her involvement in the antislavery movement, the significant figures with whom she worked for women's rights, the obstacles she faced, and the progress that her work brought about.

Angelina Grimk?

voice of abolition
1999
A biography of Angelina Grimke, a devout Christian who defied her family and her southern roots to champion the cause of abolition in the mid-1830s, becoming the first woman ever to address an American political body, and sowing the seeds of the women's rights movement.

Sisters against slavery

a story about Sarah and Angelina Grimk?
1999
A biography of two sisters from a wealthy southern family who devoted their lives to the causes of abolition and women's rights.

Lydia Maria Child

the quest for racial justice
2002
A biography of the popular writer who, in the mid-nineteenth century, gave up her successful literary career to fight for the abolition of slavery, women's rights, and the fair treatment of Native Americans.

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