Boston Women's Memorial

Lucy Stone, born in Brookfield, was one of the first Massachusetts women to graduate from college, an ardent abolitionist, a renowned orator, and the founder of the Woman’s Journal, the foremost women’s suffrage publication of its era. Abigail Adams, born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, was the wife of the second president of the United States and the mother of the sixth, and her letters establish her as a perceptive social and political commentator and a strong voice for women’s advancement. Phillis Wheatley, born in West Africa and sold as a slave from the ship Phillis in colonial Boston, was a literary prodigy whose 1773 volume Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral was the first book published by an African writer in America.

Cambridge, Massachusetts · United States