Read Part One HERE
In this post I will continue to focus on a woman named Abby Kelley. She lived from 1811 - 1887. In 1845, Abby married fellow abolitionist Stephen Foster, with whom she had a daughter Paulina. She and her husband lectured together throughout Ohio. Their home became a station on the Underground Railroad.
In 1850, Abby was one of the many abolitionists who supported the first National Women's Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts. The ideals for freedom for slaves applied equally to the new women's reform movement. Early women's rights activists used the existing abolitionist networks for support. Abby became more active in the women's movement after the Civil War.
Abby believed that the problem of slavery was a moral one, and that only moral weapons would free the slaves.
Abby always struggled to balance her anti-slavery and women's rights work with her role as a wife and a mother. She devoted over 50 years of her life to fight for the rights of all humanity.
Abby died in 1887.
Read Part One Hundred And Thirteen HERE
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