Abby Hopper Gibbons

Prison Reformer And Social Activist

BY MARGARET HOPE BACON

Brief Description:
"Although not so well known as reformers like Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Abby Hopper Gibbons was an important advocate for women's causes in the 19th century. Born into a socially conscious Quaker family, Gibbons was an abolitionist and then a nurse in the Civil War. Later, as times and issues changed, she decided not to work with the growing suffragist movement but to focus on the less prominent cause of improving the lives of women prisoners." - Library Jounrnal

State University of New York 2000 217 PP. Paper

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