Feminist and abolitionist Elizabeth Buffum Chace was one of nineteenth-century Rhode Island's most important reformers. In her long life (1806-1899), Chace worked for temperance, women's suffrage and education, orphans' rights, and prison reform. She co-founded the Rhode Island Women's Suffrage Association and presided over it until her death.

Born a Quaker, Elizabeth Buffum Chace resigned from the Society of Friends in 1843. In this letter she explained her intolerance of what she saw as the pro-slavery stance of the New England Yearly Meeting.

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