Occupation Suffragist | Name Mattie Browne | |
Died May 25, 1906, Boston, Massachusetts, United States Books Autobiography of a female slave, An Account Of A Female Slave | ||
Martha "Mattie" Griffith Browne (October 2, 1828 – 25 May 1906) was an anti-slavery novelist and American suffragist.
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Early life
Griffith Browne was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, to father Thomas Griffith and mother Martha "Mattie" Young.
Career
Her family owned slaves. In time, she inherited half a dozen slaves from her father.
In spite of her former slave-holding status, she became an abolitionist and advocated for emancipation in her writing. She is best known for her novel, Autobiography of a Female Slave, published in 1856. Another one of her notable works is a serialized novel, Madge Vertner, and was published in the National Anti-Slavery Standard from July 1859 to May 1860.
Personal life
On June 27, 1867, Griffith Browne married the journalist, abolitionist, and banker Albert Gallatin Browne, Jr., in New York City. Her husband was the son of Albert G. Browne and mother Sarah J. Cox.
She died on May 25, 1906, from breast cancer, and is buried in Harmony Grove Cemetery in Salem, Massachusetts.