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Elizabeth Margaret Chandler (December 24, 1807 – November 2, 1834) was an American poet and writer from Pennsylvania and Michigan. She became the first female writer in the United States to make the abolition of slavery her principal theme.
American abolitionist and writer. Born on December 24, 1807, at Centre, near Wilmington, Delaware; died of fever on November 22, 1834; daughter of Thomas Chandler (a Quaker farmer); educated at the Friends' schools in Philadelphia; never married.
Elizabeth Margaret Chandler (December 24, 1807 – November 2, 1834) was an American poet and writer from Pennsylvania and Michigan. She became the first female writer in the United States to make the abolition of slavery her principal theme.
ELIZABETH M. CHANDLER (1807 – 1834) After both of Elizabeth Chandler's parents died during her early childhood, she grew up in the homes of strict Quaker relatives in Philadelphia, where she attended a Friends' school and embraced the Quakers’ antislavery stance.
The youngest child and only daughter of a prosperous Quaker farmer of English stock, Elizabeth Margaret Chandler lost her mother in infancy, was orphaned at nine, and was raised by her grandmother and three Quaker aunts in Philadelphia. She attended Quaker schools until only twelve or thirteen and was an avid reader all her life.
Elizabeth Margaret Chandler (1807-1834) was one of the earliest women Friends to speak out publicly against slavery in her essays and poems published in Benjamin Lundy's Genius of Universal Emancipation. Slavery becomes a woman's issue:
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Elizabeth Margaret Chandler was the first woman writer in America to make the abolition of slavery her principal theme. She was born to a Quaker family in Delaware in 1807, and her brief life was marked by a series of literary achievements that can only be described as impressive, given the virtual invisibility of women in the field at that time.
