William Lloyd Garrison

Visitors who stayed with the Howitts at The Elms included Hans Christian Andersen , Tennyson , Elizabeth Gaskell , and Eliza Meteyard , who wrote as Silver Pen. Their circle also included Charles Dickens

HJ 's friendships with white people have left traces behind them; her friendships with black people have not. When she arrived in Rochester in 1849, HJ stayed briefly with Amy Post , a white Quaker...

While in the USA they met like-minded people, including Lucretia Mott and William Lloyd Garrison .

Antoinette Brown met Lucy Stone during her first few weeks at Oberlin College . In her journal Brown mentioned her hopes that the two would become friends after she had heard Stone described by an...

ST 's vocation brought her into contact with many eminent people, from Abraham Lincoln downwards. She shared a platform with Frederick Douglass on a famous occasion when she challenged his faith by demanding whether God...

The United States was more generous in its praise than England, or at any rate than London. Benjamin Lundy , William Lloyd Garrison , Frederick Douglass , and Lucretia Mott all admired her, and for...

The volume was welcomed by William Lloyd Garrison in The Liberator, and was reviewed in the Athenæum in February 1857.

HM formed links with the wing of the abolitionist movement led by William Lloyd Garrison , and made a fast friend in Maria Weston Chapman , a pivotal member of this movement. Long after her...

LMC 's feminist ideas, though foreshadowed in her adolescent encounter with Milton, were slow to develop. When Frances Wright visited Boston in summer 1829 and gave a public lecture about women's rights, Child not only...

Its members included Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy , Jane Cobden , William Lloyd Garrison , Josephine Butler , and Mrs P. A. (Clementia) Taylor (convenor of the first Women's Suffrage Committee formed in London), among others.

Tremendously successful, this collection reached its twentieth edition by 1871. The second of these editions contained an introduction by William Lloyd Garrison .

EH 's posthumous fame was (and remains) greater in the USA than in Britain. William Lloyd Garrison praised her in a public speech given at Glasgow in 1840, several years after British abolition was achieved...

This powerful evocation of a female African-American slave, who challenges her pursuers and thereby forestalls her capture moments before she dies, draws on EBB 's awareness of the Barrett family's history as Jamaican slaveholders. A...

Even the original text of the Narrative of Sojourner Truth is told in the third person, not the first, and uses the standard white, middle-class, abolitionist diction of sentiment. There is little sense of ST