Women in Abolition

In the 1830s, thousands of women were involved in the movement to abolish slavery. Women wrote articles for abolitionist papers, circulated abolitionist pamphlets, and circulated, signed, and delivered petitions to Congress calling for abolition. Some women became prominent leaders in the abolition movement. Female abolitionists sometimes faced discrimination within the movement itself, which led to their politicization on the issue of women’s rights.