EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN EARLY 1800: JOSEPHINE SOPHIA WHITE GRIFFING P/135

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In this post I will continue to focus on a woman  named Josephine Sophia White Griffing. She lived from 1814 - 1872. Shortly after President Abraham Lincoln gave the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, Josephine joined the Women's Loyal National League as a lecturing agent, where she helped collect thousands of signatures for a women's anti-slavery petition that was eventually presented to the United States Congress by Charles Sumner 

Josephine was also active in the temperance movement. While in Washington, she maintained her dedication to women's rights and the cause of suffrage. In 1866 she helped found the American Equal Rights Association, whose purpose was to promote equality and suffrage for all people no matter their race or sex; she also served as its first vice-president.

Josephine becamse the president of the District of Columbia woman Suffrage Association in 1867, where she helped monitor suffrage activities in Washongton D.C.  In 1869, she joined the National Woman Suffrage Association and acted as its corresponding seretary. 

Josephine died in 1872.

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