EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN EARLY 1800: ELIZABETH MARGARET CHANDLER P/167

                                                        Read Part One HERE

In this post I will continue to focus on a woman named Elizabeth Magaret Chandler. She lived from 1807 -1834.

In her essays, Elizabeth emphasized the contradiction between slavery and the Declaration of Independence, the degrading effect of slavery on master as well as slave, and the need to destroy the economic base of slavery by refusing to use products which were produced by slave labour.

Elizabeth was also an early believer in the need for women to champion humane causes. In her essay "To the Ladies of the United States," she chided women for deceiving themselves when they protestested that they had no power to ameliorate the horrors of slavery: "American women! Your power is sufficient for its extinction! Ye are called upon for extertion of that potency."

In 1832, Elizabeth formed the Logan Female Anti-Slavery Society together with her friend and neighbour Laura Smith Haviland; this organisation eventually resulted in the establishment of one of the main links in the Underground Railroad System to Canada.

Elizabeth died shortly before her twenty-seventh birthday in 1834.

Read Part One Hundred And Sixty-Eight HERE