A Short Address to Females of Color, comes from Anna Elizabeth, dated June 11, from Philadelphia: writer calls for the 4th of July to be set apart as a day…
Category: <span>Females</span>
Includes LINES, composed by unnamed female for The Liberator …. Here are some of the “lines” from this poem: How can you eat, how can you drink, How wear your…
By a Colored Lady from Middletown, July 29, 1831 “……I am induced to write a few words of encouragement to us as a people….”
There is a statement about the qualities of the lady who conducts this Department, and several paragraphs from her pen, but without her name: Our Own Sex “We have not…
In reference to the Colonization Society: “ When this Society was organized, I was one of its warmest friends, and anticipated great good from its influence, both in Christianizing Africa…
Long paragraphs from an Address delivered at the African Masonic Hall in Boston, Feb 27, 1833 by Mrs. Maria W. Stewart After proclaiming that “we sprung from one of the…
Notice of and constitution of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society
Notice of the death of a “Meritorious Female Abolitionist”, Elizabeth M. Chandler. Highly praised and recognized as one who had contributed often to the Genius of Emancipation and to…
by Miss A.E. Grimke Prior to printing portions of the Appeal, there are these comments, listing four reasons why Grimke says it is appropriate to the appeal to the women…
Two black women, on board a ship, signal distress from cabin window. Some men of color, seeing this, get a writ of habeas corpus, and the women are freed from…
Under the Ladies’ Department Letter from Female Antislavery Society of Concord, N.H., from Nov., 1835, addressed to Angelina Grimke, and in response to Grimke’s letter published by Garrison. Letter expresses…
From “The Advocate of Moral Reform”, a delightful story of women who have refused the “attention” of men of this character.
There had evidently been something of a “riot” on March 2, when a lecture to an audience of women was disturbed by a “vile rabble”. Here appears an account of…
Mary Parker, President and Maria Weston Chapman, Cor. Sec. write to Female Anti-Slavery Societies throughout New England. The letter commends Sarah and Angelina Grimke for their continued work against slavery,…
Under the Refuge of Oppression column there is a communication from The General Association of Massachusetts to churches under their care: The lengthy letter cautions against lectures which ” threaten…
An article here is a reminder that many issues of this period Liberator carry articles by Sarah Grimke
Maria Chapman sends an article from the London Sun, which encourages women to “no longer remain satisfied in the circumscribed limits with which corrupt custom and a perverted application of…
Here is notice of the first annual meeting of this society in Nantucket, includes a list of Officers, a notice of resolutions adopted, and a collection of $20 sent to…
The preamble and constitution of the Society is included, with names of people from Mass., Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania. An asterisk by several names indicates that…
In this convention there is a resolution affirming the importance of the AASS; the resolution is to be sent to the members of the churches, but there has been some…
From the Connecticut Observer, an item from Kelley, Berlin, Feb 3, 1840 Responding to the argument, advanced by many, that public opinion is against having women speak in public meetings,…
Between May 8 and May 15, 1840 there is a special four page edition of the Liberator, devoted to the proceedings of the sixth annual meeting of the Boston Female…
Appearing under Refuge of Oppression are minutes of a Connecticut Anti-Slavery Society, from the New Haven Record. Abby Kelley appears at the meeting, and her presence creates controversy. She is…
September’s 2, 1842 From an “Observer”, Canandaigua Lake, August, 1842 . Very critical review of Kelley’s attacks on the Liberty Party. “Abby’s course may do much harm to the cause…
September 16, 1842 Here is a record of an Essex County Conference, August 18, held in Andover. “Reports were listened to from societies in Boston, Cambridge, Danvers, Andover, Reading, Haverhill,…
August 11, 1843 In an item addressed to the Essex County Anti-Slavery Conference, Chapman here pleas for financial support for the cause. She indicates that her letter is in behalf…
January 8, 1847 From the N.Y. Eve Post “Persons who have never visited our prisons and police offices, can form no adequate idea of the suffering endured by many of…
January 22, 1847 “The following is an Article in the Constitution of Wisconsin, which guarantees to every wife her own property, and to every family a home, beyond the power…
January 29, 1847 Here is a long article, under the title above, with no designation of source, except that reference is made to New York state. It concludes: “I fain…
July 23, 1847 A long “admirable introduction by Mrs. C. M. Kirkland, to the equally admirable work, just published in New York by Fowlers and Wells, entitled ‘Woman, her Education…
August 25, 1848 A brief article about anti-slavery lectures, by this native of West Brookfield, and Oberlin graduate. It commends her style, indicating that she is “entirely free from the…
June 22, 1849 Here is a letter to the Editor, from Samuel Gregory, Sec’ry A.M. E. Society, at 25 Cornhill. It indicates that the American Medical Education Society, with five…
December 14, 1849 A petition calls for the State legislature to grant the vote to women. The editor includes a preface saying that “the denial of the elective franchise to…
September 13, 1850 Reference is made to a pamphlet telling of the school, which has been operating for two years, having been incorporated during the last session of the legislature. …
May 9, 1851 “Mrs. Bloomer, editor of the Lily, has adopted the ‘short dress and trowsers’ and says in her paper of this month that many of the women of…
July 18, 1851 A letter from Maria Weston Chapman, written to the editor of the Anti-Slavery Standard, gives encouraging word of a gathering of women with whom she met while…
August 8, 1851 This article tells of the intent to create the School, indicates that there will be a meeting at which the Board of Directors will be chosen, and…
November 7, 1851 Henry C. Wright, writes from Indiana, where he has attended a Women’s Convention. The Convention has adopted several strong anti-slavery resolutions. One Methodist leader, Bible in hand,…
January 23, 1852 “This is the title of an association, which was organized in Boston, last year, by some of the most enterprising colored women, for mutual aid and advantage,…
August 20, 1852 A letter to Garrison, from Sarah D. Fish, Rochester, calls for attention to the ways in which domestic servants are mistreated. After recounting the many groups of…
October 22, 1852 Included is a letter from Harriet Hunt, 32 Green St., Boston, in which she addresses The Treasurer and Assessors of the City. It is a “protest against…
November 25, 1853 The article reports on the success of the School, with an average enrollment of sixty-two It is to receive for three years an annual grant of fifteen…
November 3, 1854 The Christian Ambassador, the organ of the Universalists of New York, urges that Tufts College, “soon to be opened near Boston” be “opened freely to both sexes”.…
December 21, 1855 Here is a notice from the Boston Transcript, of the school, located on Temple Place, with a tuition of twenty dollars a year. The article appeals to…
March 14, 1856 An article tells of a recent Convention, at Glen Haven (no state), advocating reform in Dress for Woman. “Our object is not to advocate for her positions…
September 12, 1856 The Springfield Republican tells of a lecture by Anthony, at the close of the session of the Normal School Convention. Her subject was, “Is it desirable that…
March 1, 1861 Notice that the New York legislature has incorporated the college, begun about a year ago.
October 23, 1863 One again, here is the petition, sponsored by the Loyal Women of The Republic, through their National Association, calling upon the Congress to enact emancipation of all…
New Movement — It appears by a communication in the Boston Liberator, that an association of women has been formed in Essex County, in this State, for the benevolent purpose…