Matilda Joslyn Gage

Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage (1826-1898) was a suffragist, a Native American activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author, who was "born with a hatred of oppression". Her childhood was spent in a house which was a station of the underground railroad. She faced prison for her actions under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 which criminalized assistance to escaped slaves. Even though she was beset by both financial and physical (cardiac) problems throughout her life, her work for women's rights was extensive, practical, and often brilliantly executed.

Reference

• Brammer, Leila R. "Excluded from Suffrage History: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Nineteenth Century American Feminist." 2000, Greenwood Publishing Group Inc. ISBN: 0-313-30467-X ISSN: 0147-104X