Lucy Stone
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Lucy Stone was an American orator, abolitionist and suffragist who was a vocal advocate for and organizer of promoting rights for women. In 1847, Stone became the first woman from Massachusetts to ear
Daguerreotype of Lucy Stone, c. 1840–1860
Lucy Stone as a young woman
Fanciful 1919 drawing by Marguerite Martyn of Lucy Stone as a young woman being pelted with vegetables as she speaks. At right, jeering men spray her with a hose, and another man displays a book titled St. Paul Sayeth.
An engraving of Lucy Stone wearing bloomers was published in 1853.
Margaret Garner
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Margaret Garner was an enslaved African-American woman who killed her own daughter and intended to kill her other three children and herself rather than be forced back into slavery. Garner and her fam
Lucy Stone
…the summer of 1857, Stone continued a full lecturing, petitioning, and organizing schedule. In January 1856, Stone was a defense witness in the case of Margaret Garner, a slave of the Gaines family in Kentucky, who had escaped with her husband and children across the frozen Ohio River into the free state of Ohio. When…
Thomas Satterwhite Noble's 1867 painting The Modern Medea was based on Garner's story.