American Women & the Abolitionist Movement

American women had a significant impact on the abolitionist movement. Female abolitionists, in fact, became the leaders of the nationÆs first feminist movement and were instrumental in organizing the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention. Lucy Stone and Maria Stewart were prominent abolitionist speakers, and autobiographies of fugitive slaves such as Ellen Craft were circulated widely in support of the abolitionist movement (Stewart). Lydia Maria Child was a white anti-slavery writer and activist who produced The Anti-Slavery Standard as well as a childrenÆs magazine. A champion of racial and gender equality as well as interracial marriage and abolition, she worked to promote the purchase of items made by free labor as opposed to those produced by slave labor. Mary Ann Shadd, born to free African-American parents who were active abolitionists, wrote about the anti-slavery movement and conducted an anti-slavery lecture tour (ôOther Abolitionists).

Harriet Tubman was one of the most well-known former slaves

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