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Julia Griffiths (21 May 1811 – 1895) was a British abolitionist who worked with the American former slave
Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 1817 or 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became ...
. The two met in
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, England, during Douglass's tour of the British Isles in 1845–47. In 1849, Griffiths joined Douglass in
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, and edited, published and promoted his work. She was one of six founding members of the influential Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society. She is most noted for publishing ''Autographs for Freedom'', an anthology of anti-slavery literature. In 1854, there were unfounded accusations, leveled by
William Lloyd Garrison William Lloyd Garrison (December , 1805 – May 24, 1879) was a prominent American Christian, abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He is best known for his widely read antislavery newspaper '' The Liberator'', which he foun ...
, that Douglass and Griffiths engaged in infidelity. Griffiths returned to England in 1855, where she continued to organize ladies' anti-slavery societies, write columns for Douglass's newspapers, and raise funds for the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Sewing Society, later called the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery and Freedmen's Aid Society. In 1859, she married Henry O. Crofts, a Methodist minister and former missionary in Canada. After her husband's death, Crofts ran a school for girls in
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Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society Papers
at the William L. Clements Library British abolitionists 1811 births 1895 deaths Frederick Douglass {{UK-activist-stub