Mary-Kay BelantMar 27, 20212 minPhebe Hathaway: Meeting the Moment on Temperance, Abolition, and Woman’s RightsFarmington’s Phebe Hathaway (1819 – 1902) was positioned by time, place, family, and faith to work for the transformational reform...
Paula WhitacreMar 20, 20214 minHarriet Jacobs: A Pivotal Time in Upstate New York (photo used with permission) Harriet Jacobs, born around 1815, in Edenton, North Carolina, spent two years in Rochester, New York. Here,...
Paula WhitacreMar 12, 20214 minJulia Wilbur: From a Monroe County Farm to a Fight for Equal RightsThe currents of social reform that circulated in upstate New York in the mid-1800s produced many well-known leaders in abolitionism and...
Judith WellmanMar 8, 20213 minElizabeth Cady Stanton & FarmingtonAnybody who knows anything about women’s suffrage knows Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She was the catalyst for the first women’s rights...