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Author Bacon, Margaret Hope

Title Abby Hopper Gibbons : prison reformer and social activist / Margaret Hope Bacon
Published Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 217 pages) : illustrations
Series SUNY series in women, crime, and criminology
SUNY series in women, crime, and criminology.
Contents Her Father's Daughter -- The Abolitionist/Feminists -- The Woman Question -- Our Imprisoned Sisters -- "Losses and Crosses" -- "The Calls of Humanity" -- "Take the News to Mother" -- The Draft Riots -- "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again" -- An Advocate for Women -- "A Reformatory, Pure and Simple."
Summary "This first contemporary biography of nineteenth-century American social activist and prison reformer Abigail Hopper Gibbons (1801-1893) illuminates women's changing role in the various reform movements of the period. Beginning as an abolitionist/feminist, Gibbons helped to found the Women's Prison Association of New York City in 1845. This group established the Isaac T. Hopper Home for discharged women prisoners, the first such institution in the world. Gibbons later became an advocate and lobbyist for improvements in the care of women in the city prisons, for the employment of police matrons, and for the establishment of separate correctional facilities for women prisoners." "Though born pacifist Quaker, Gibbons became a Civil War nurse who protected escaping slaves. During the 1863 Draft Riots, her house in New York City was sacked. Following the war, she was involved in establishing several New York charities. In the 1870s she became a leader and lobbyist for the Moral Reform Movement, both locally and nationally. Her story is intrinsically interesting, and illustrates the political action employed by women of her period."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-206) and index
Notes English
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Subject Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 1801-1893.
SUBJECT Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 1801-1893 fast
Subject Prison reformers -- United States -- Biography
Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography
Quaker women -- United States -- Biography
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
Prison reformers
Quaker women
Women social reformers
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 99039701
ISBN 0585308527
9780585308524
0791492850
9780791492857