Abolitionists make cameos in my next novel

I’m excited to have two inspiring abolitionists make cameo appearances in my next time travel novel. Both lived in Philadelphia where the story takes place in the 1850s.

Lucretia Mott was a tiny Quaker woman who fought long and hard to persuade white Americans to abolish the sin of slavery. Mott was also an activist for women’s rights. She called the two movements “kindred crusades.”

Of course, a lot of Quakers were abolitionists. Known during that time as The Society of Friends, it was the ...