Though she was an ordinary person, not a leader or organizer, Eliza Marsh's life shows the importance of rural women to abolitionism, and suggests this female contribution was undervalued, as men, preoccupied with personal honor, engaged in factional schism. Includes a previously unknown statement on feminism by William Lloyd Garrison.

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