Elizabeth Buffum Chace
1806–99
American anti-slavery activist and reformer. A prominent New England Quaker. Organised the Fall River Female Anti-Slavery Society with her two sisters in 1835. Moved to Valley Falls, Rhode Island, in 1840. Co-founder of the Rhode Island Woman Suffrage Association, 1868; president, 1870–99.
Source
ANB.
Bibliography
ANB: American national biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. and supplement. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999–2002.
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