As a young woman in the nineteenth-century, Elizabeth Margaret Chandler could not help end slavery by becoming a lawyer or legislator. But she could write-and publish-her passionate opinions. And, beginning when she was just sixteen, that's what she did. Hers was a voice out of the "backwoods" wilderness of the Michigan Territory, laying the groundwork for Emancipation. Elizabeth practiced Quaker modesty-her poems and essays were published under a variety of pseudonyms. But in less than five years, no "anonymous" woman was better known in the cause of abolition. This is her story. It is also...
As a young woman in the nineteenth-century, Elizabeth Margaret Chandler could not help end slavery by becoming a lawyer or legislator. But she could w...