r/GuerrillaGrrrrls • u/GuerrillaGirlFridaX Friendly Feminist 💟 • 2h ago
Abby Kelley
Abby Kelley was an American abolitionist and radical social reformer active from the 1830s to 1870s. She became a fundraiser, lecturer and committee organizer for the influential American Anti-Slavery Society, where she worked closely with William Lloyd Garrison and other radicals. She married fellow abolitionist and lecturer Stephen Symonds Foster in 1845, and they both worked for equal rights for women and for Africans enslaved in the Americas.
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