Books The Young Abolitionists: Or, Conversations on Slavery | ||
Jane Elizabeth Jones (March 13, 1813 – January 13, 1896) was an American suffragist and abolitionist and member of the early women's rights movement.
Biography
Jane Elizabeth Jones was born Jane Elizabeth Hitchcock to Reuben and Electra Hitchcock (née Spaulding) in Vernon, New York on March 13, 1813.
Jones was known for her abolitionist views and traveled throughout New England, Pennsylvania, and Ohio as a lecturer in support of Garrisonian abolitionism. In 1845, she traveled to Salem, Ohio with fellow abolitionist lecturer, Abby Kelley. The pair organized anti-slavery activities and co-edited the Anti-Slavery Bugle. In 1850, she delivered a lecture before the Ohio Women’s Convention in Salem, Ohio where she highlighted people in slavery and women, wishing that the term “Women’s Rights” would go out of use and instead focus on human rights for all. In 1861, Jones successfully lobbied with Frances Dana Barker Gage and Hannah Tracy Cutler for Ohio law to grant limited property rights to married women.
In The Young Abolitionist; or Conversations on Slavery, Jones uses the form of a children’s book to speak to women’s political voices. Through her mother character who discusses with her children slavery in American history, providing a complete history to her reader.
She died on January 13, 1896.