Elizabeth Coltman Heyrick

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Overview

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Elizabeth Coltman Heyrick born Leicester, England December 4, 1769 (d. 1831). Quaker pacifist; ex-army wife; radical pamphleteer; pioneering abolitionist; founder of women's reform groups; prison reformer; opponent of capital punishment and animal abuse.

Quotations

"Truth and justice, make their way best in the world, when they appear in bold and simple majesty; their demands are most willingly conceded when they are most fearlessly claimed." (1824 Immediate Abolition, 1837 ed. 22; photo Lond. YM Quakers in the World)