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AMERICAN WOMEN
Fifteen Hundred Biographies
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A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of the Lives and Achievements of American
Women During the Nineteenth Century
Edited by Frances E. Willard and Mary A Livermore
assisted by a corps of able contributors..
Volume 1
Mast. Crowell & Kirkpatrick
New Your Chicago
Springfield, Ohio
1893 < CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF AMERICAN WOMEN >
Mary Grew |
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MARY GREW, anti-slavery agitator and
preacher, born in Hartford, Conn., 1st September, 1813.
Her childhood and early youth were spent there. In 1834
she removed to Boston, Mass., and afterwards to Philadelphia,
Pa., where she still resides. The principal work of her
life has been performed in the interest of our colored
population. By inheritance and training she was a radical
abolitionist. When the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society
was organized, she became a member of it. On her
removal to Philadelphia she joined the Female Anti-Slavery
Society of that city, became its corresponding secretary, and
wrote its annual reports until 1870, when the society disbanded.
She was a member of the Woman's Anti-Slavery Convention in 1838,
which held its sessions in Pennsylvania Hall, surrounded by a
furious mob, which destroyed the building by fire a few hours
after the convention adjourned. Her public speaking was
for many years confined to anti-slavery platforms almost
exclusively. That cause demanded much of its advocates
during the years when their number was few and the name of
Abolitionist was counted odious in church and state. After
slavery was abolished and the fifteenth amendment of the United
States Constitution was ratified, she devoted her energies and
time to other reforms, especially to the enfranchisement of
women. She became a member of the Unitarian Church, in
which there were no distinctions based upon sex. There she
commenced the work of occasional preaching. She found the
pulpits of Unitarian churches freely opened to her, and in
northern New England also the pulpits of free-will Baptists,
Methodists and Congregational churches. She was one of the
founders of the New Century Club, of Philadelphia. She was
also one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage
Association, and is still its president.
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