A Woman's Life-Work Labors and Experiences

By Laura S. Haviland

Subjects: Freedmen, Biography, Underground railroad, African American women, Large type books, Wesleyan Methodist Church of America, Slavery, Freed persons, united states, Women in charitable work, Haviland, laura s. (laura smith), 1808-1898, Emancipation, Underground Railroad, Freed persons, United states, race relations, Race relations

Description: Autobiography of a leader of anti-slavery activities in Michigan. She helped found the “Logan Female Anti-Slavery Society” in 1832, and founded the “Raisin Institute” in Lenawee County in 1837, which brought together African American and white children for vocational training. She later became very actively engaged in the Underground Railroad, even traveling in the south at great personal risk to help slaves escape to Canada.