Rebecca Jones

Overview

Rebecca Jones born Philadelphia, PA July 8, 1739 (d. 1818). Quaker schoolmistress 1761-84; traveling minister and philanthropist who worked for Indian rights; opposed all wars and slave trade.

Quotations

"The injustice and iniquity of that [slave] trade, and the newspapers have continual strokes at it, so that I hope something will be done to put a stop to the diabolical business." (Jan. 5, 1788 letter to John Pemberton, in Memorials of Rebecca Jones, p. 144, 1848; photo 18th Century Women)