Title: A Woman's Life-Work  Labors and Experiences
First published: 1969
Description: Autobiography of a leader of anti-slavery activities in Michigan. She helped found the “Logan Female Anti-Slavery Society” in 1832, and founded the “Raisin Institute” in Lenawee County in 1837, which brought together African American and white children for vocational training. She later became very actively engaged in the Underground Railroad, even traveling in the south at great personal risk to help slaves escape to Canada.
Subjects: Freedmen, Race relations, Underground railroad, Women in charitable work, African American women, Biography, Wesleyan Methodist Church of America, Freed persons, United states, race relations, Haviland, laura s. (laura smith), 1808-1898, Large type books, Freed persons, united states, Emancipation, Slavery
Places: United States
People: Laura S. Haviland (1808-1898)
LC classification: E450 H38 1969B