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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.

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A portrait of Dorothea Dix, an advocate for the indigent insane who helped establish the US’s first mental asylums.

Excerpt from a biography quoting a letter from the superintendent of McClean Asylum that supports Dix’s work for the mentally ill.

An excerpt from an address by Emma Willard to the New York State Legislature proposing a plan for improving female education.

A postcard showing a statue of Emma Willard on the campus of Russell Sage College, a women’s college started by Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage.

A letter from Susan B. Anthony to Elizabeth Cady Stanton about women’s rights and education for women, May 26, 1856.

An excerpt from a chapter on the benefits of education in the 1848 book A Treatise on Domestic Economy by Catherine Beecher.

An excerpt from a catalogue for the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, 1835.

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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