FEMALE ABOLITIONISTS

A Dover Original this collection of essays letters poems and speeches by the bold women who joined the abolitionist movement of the nineteenth century will educate and inspire all who are interested in this era of American history. The collection includes the work of 26 remarkable women whose efforts at great risk to their own safety became instrumental in fighting slavery including Phillis Wheatley Sojourner Truth Mary Prince Sarah Mapps Douglass Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lydia Maria Child Harriet Tubman Angelina and Sarah Grimké and more.