Farmington’s Phebe Hathaway (1819 – 1902) was positioned by time, place, family, and faith to work for the transformational reform...

(photo used with permission) Harriet Jacobs, born around 1815, in Edenton, North Carolina, spent two years in Rochester, New York. Here,...

The currents of social reform that circulated in upstate New York in the mid-1800s produced many well-known leaders in abolitionism and...

Anybody who knows anything about women’s suffrage knows Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She was the catalyst for the first women’s rights...