The fact that one million of the female sex are reduced, by the slave system , to the most deplorable conditions — compelled to perform the most laborious and unseemly tasks — liable to be whipped to an unmerciful degree — exposed to l the violence of lust and passion – and treated with more indelicacy and cruelty than cattle , ought to excite the sympathy and indignation of American women. We have therefore concluded, that a Ladies’ Department in the Liberator would add greatly to its interest, and give a new impetus to the cause of emancipation. The ladies of Great Britain are moving the sympathies of the whole nation, in behalf of the perishing slaves in the British Colonies. We cannot believe that our own ladies are less philanthropic or less influential. In their hands is the destiny of the slaves………
(Liberator, January 7, 1832, pg 2)
