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Women of the Antebellum Reform Movement

An excerpt from a biography of William Lloyd Garrison with an 1833 letter from Prudence Crandall about teaching African American girls.

An excerpt from a biography of William Lloyd Garrison with an 1833 letter from Prudence Crandall about teaching African American girls.

Citation Information: Garrison, Wendell Phillips, excerpt from “Prudence Crandall,” Digital Public Library of America, http://dp.la/item/d9b1a6ced94cccf8d74af9c4ec01cf00.

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A portrait of Prudence Crandall, an advocate for racially integrated classrooms and education for African American girls.

An excerpt from a biography of William Lloyd Garrison with an 1833 letter from Prudence Crandall about teaching African American girls.

A letter from Anne Weston Warren to the Female Anti-Slavery Society, 1837.

An 1837 letter from Angelina Grimke to Amos Phelps in which she discusses the abolition of slavery and the equality of men and women.

An excerpt from Maria W. Stewart’s Meditations with a letter from William Lloyd Garrison that describes Stewart’s abolitionist work.

A 1902 portrait of Frances Harper, an African American abolitionist, suffragist, and poet.

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