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In this post I will focus on a woman named Josephine Sophia White Griffing. She lived from 1814 - 1872. Josephine was born in Hebron, Connecticut. Her parents were Joseph White and his wife Sophia Waldo.
In 1835, at the age of twenty, Josephine married Charles Stockman Spooner Griffing. By 1842, the couple moved to Litchfield, Ohio. By 1849, she had become a active member of the Western Anti-Slavery Society, and by 1851 she had become a traveling agent, preaching "no union with slaveholders."
Josephine also began going on lecture tours on abolitionism throughout the West, becoming one of the most prolific anti-slavery speakers in the region. She also wrote articles for The Anti-Slavery Bugle, a newspaper published out of Salem, Ohio.
Josephine opened her home as a stop on the Underground Railroad. During the Civil War, she acted as the western agent for the Women's Loyal National League, an organisation that worked to outlaw slavery in every state.
Read Part One Hundred And Thirty-Four HERE
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