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In this post I will focus on a woman named Hannah Maria Conant Tracy. She lived from 1815 - 1896. She was born in Becket, Massachusetts. Her parents were John and Orpha Conant. In 1831, the family moved to rochester, Ohio. Two years later Oberlin College, opened its doors to women, prompting Hannah to beg her father to pay for her tuition. However he was staunchly opposed to do-education and refused to pay her education.
Not easily denied, Hannah married Oberlin College theology student John Martin Tracy in 1834. Studying her husband's theological and law texts, Hannah discovered the extent to which women had limitations placed on them through common law. These discoveries prompted her husband to become an abolitionist speaker and activist.Their collaborative work ended when her husband died.
Following his death, Hannah began writing articles for the Cleveland Herald under the male pseudonyms "Cassius Marcellius Clay" and "Josiah A. Harris." At the same time she began teaching and helped create the Women's Anti-Slavery Society as well as a temperance society.
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