When the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society collapsed in 1841, evangelical women established the Massachusetts Female Emancipation Society. Although scholars have suggested that their conservatism soon caused MFES women to abandon abolitionism, an examination of non-Garrisonian newspapers reveals not only their undiminished commitment to moral suasion but their enthusiastic embrace of the Liberty Party and political action.

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