Read Part One HERE
In this story I will continue to focus on a woman named Elizabeth Buffum Chace. She lived from 1806 - 1899. With the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, Elizabeth continued her striving for the outlaw of slavery and although firmly supportive of the Union cause, she was disappointed that Abraham Lincoln did not move immediately to abolish slavery
Elizabeth met and corresponded regularly with many of the most significant Anti-Slavery figures of that time; she associated personally with William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass and William Wells Bronwn, and hosted them frequently at her home.
In her later life, Elizabeth continued to advocate for the political rights of women and for prison and workplace reform. She and other women were involved in the creation of the RI State Home and School for Dependent and Neglected Children, which resulted in a bill in 1884 to create a home for them. The School was opened in 1885.
Elizabeth died in 1899.
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