Justice for All: the life of Eliza Coffin Janney Rawson
Eliza Finch Coffin (1830-1907) was a Quaker civil rights worker for both Black education and equality, as well as women’sContinue Reading
Tag: Lincoln Virginia
John Woolman, a Gentle Role Model in the Battle Against Slavery
In the 1730’s when Quakers first settled in Loudoun County, Virginia they, like Mennonites in Pennsylvania, and Moravians in PennsylvaniaContinue Reading
Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony in Lincoln, VA
On July 14, 1848, a group of women announced their plan for a women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, NewContinue Reading
Earliest Black School in Virginia?
Elizabeth Janney (1802-1893) wrote her husband from their home in the village of Goose Creek (renamed “Lincoln”) on September 27,Continue Reading
Nest of Abolitionists and the 1820’s Manumission and Emigration movement
The Library of Virginia, in their Out of the Box archives, has a series of articles about the anti-slavery and abolitionist societies which spreadContinue Reading
Janney Store during the Civil War
Samuel, Elizabeth Janney and family left their Springdale School residence in 1854 and moved to the center of Goose CreekContinue Reading
Nest of Abolitionists 