Amy Post

Overview

Amy Kirby Post born Jericho, Long Island, NY December 20, 1802 (d. 1889). Quaker nonresistant; feminist; abolitionist. Signed Seneca Falls Declaration, 1848. Conductor on Underground Railroad, Rochester, NY.

Quotations

“The abolitionists surely have a work to do now, in inflewence-ing [sic] and directing this bloody struggle, that it may end in Emancipation, as the only basis of a true and permanent peace.” (personal correspondence, June 18, 1861; photo examiner.com)