PA-063 Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society


Marker text: PHILADELPHIA FEMALE ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY

Organized in 1833 by Quaker abolitionist Lucretia Mott, this society, headquartered here, originally consisted of sixty women who sought to end slavery. After the Civil War, the society supported the cause of the freed slaves.

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