Elizabeth Buffum Chace and Lillie Chace Wyman: A Century of Abolitionist, Suffragist and Workers’ Rights Activism

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At her death she was once hailed as “the judgment of right and wrong of Rhode Island”: Elizabeth Buffum Chace’s life (1806-1899) of public activism spanned sixty years. Having fought to abolish slavery in the years before the Civil War, Chace spearheaded the drive for women’s suffrage in Rhode Island in the last decades of the 19th century. She was once an associate of radical activists William Lloyd Garrison and Lucy Stone and she advocated for the rights of women and children toiling in her husband’s factories. Her daughter – one of ten children – Lillie Chace Wyman (1847-1929), was once an activist-creator and published short stories on social issues in Atlantic Monthly and other periodicals. An outspoken advocate of racial equality, Wyman kept the legacy of the radical antislavery movement of her mother’s generation alive into the twentieth century. Since neither Chace nor Wyman left in the back of a choice of personal papers, this mother-daughter biography is the product of Stevens’ extensive research into private and non-private archives to locate documents that remove darkness from the lives of these two remarkable women. By having a look at 19th century American women’s history through the lens of this activist pair, Stevens reveals one of the connections between the private and non-private lives of activists and examines a relationship that was once at once nurturing, confining, stifling and enriching.

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