Abolition, slavery & women’s rights
Sarah Parker Remond
1826–1894
Massachusetts connection
Salem; later Britain and Italy
Remond grew up in Salem and became an antislavery speaker. She carried the case against American slavery to audiences in Britain and supported women’s rights. Her life reminds us that Massachusetts reformers were connected to people and movements around the world.
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