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Blackwell, Lucy Stone

abolitionist, was born Aug. 13, 1818, in West Brookfield, Mass. By hard work between the hours of study she educated herself at Oberlin college; graduated with high honors and became an agent and lecturer for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery society, in which capacity she often pleaded for the rights of women as well as for those of the slave. In 1855 she was married to Henry B. Blackwell, but still retained her maiden name. She died Oct. 18, 1893, in Dorchester, Mass.