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What Can a Woman Do?: A Young Abolitionist in the Michigan Territory by Ellamarie Schroeder (Paperback / softback, 2009)

As a young woman in the nineteenth-century, Elizabeth Margaret Chandler could t help end slavery by becoming a lawyer or legislator. But she could write-and publish-her passionate opinions. And, beginning when she was just sixteen, that's what she did. Hers was a voice out of the backwoods wilderness of the Michigan Territory, laying the groundwork for Emancipation. Elizabeth practiced Quaker modesty-her poems and essays were published under a variety of pseudonyms. But in less than five years,anymous woman was better kwn in the cause of abolition. This is her story. It is also the story of life in the 1830's Michigan Territory: the excitement of raising a cabin, the terrifying awesomeness of a prairie fire, and the joys of learning new skills like sausage-making and maple-sugaring. Elizabeth wrote enthusiastically of the surprising beauty of her new home, contradicting the saying, Don't go to Michigan, that land of ills; the word means ague, fever, and chills!

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