Read Part One HERE
In this post I will continue the story of Abby Kelley. She lived from 1811 - 1887. Abby's career as a lecturer began in 1838, when she gave her first speech for the American Anti-Slavery Society to an audience of men and women at Pennsylvania Hall in Philadelphia. She would go on to become one of its most popular speakers and its most successful fundraiser. Through her influence, many women became abolitionists and supporters of women's rights.
Frederick Douglass, a slave who escaped to freedom and fought to free his people from bondage, sometimes joined Abby on the lecture tours. She liked to work with black speakers, who could give first hand accounts of the horrors of slavery.
Abby went to Seneca Falls, New York, in 1843 to give an abolitionist lecture, and initiated a chain of events that founded a congregation and a host for the First Women's Rights Convention five years later.
Read Part One Hundred And Eleven HERE
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