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by meats and vegetables and cooking appliances, with just enough of the common deal table cleared away to give space for her writing materials, she composed and made ready for the publisher by far the most remarkable work of fiction this country has produced.
Slavery is dead, but Mrs. Stowe's masterpiece lives, and is likely to live with growing luster as long as our free institutions survive, which it is to be hoped will be forever.
One of the most remarkable early workers in the Abolition cause was Mrs. Lucretia Mott, a little Quaker woman of Pennsylvania.
The writer saw her for the last time shortly before her death.
She was then acting as presiding officer of an “Equal rights” --meaning equal suffrage-meeting.
Sitting on one hand was Susan B. Anthony, and on the other Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and next to one of them sat a stately negro.
She was then an aged woman, but her eye seemed to be as bright and her movements as alert as they had ever been.
Framed by her becoming Quaker bonnet, which she retained in her official position, the face of the handsome old lady would have been a splendid subject for an artist.
Mrs. Mott gave much of her time and all the means she could control to the cause of the slave.
She was an exceedingly spirited and eloquent speaker.
On one lecturing tour she traveled twenty-four hundred miles, the most of the way in old-fashioned stage-coaches.
By a number of taverns she was denied entertainment.
Like other pioneers in the same movement, Mrs. Mott was the victim of numerous mobbings.
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G. P. Putnam's Son, 1905.
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