Spoke in answer to Phillips and Powell. Mrs. Child and others at dinner. Mrs. Child describes her collaring and pulling away a man who was shaking his fist in Mr. Phillips's face at Music Hall mob — and her surprise when he tumbled down. When Jonas H. French said, “This is no place for women,” she answered, “They are needed here to teach civilization to men.”Many years later, Colonel Higginson wrote of Wendell Phillips: “That which really attracted him was public life and not the bar, and nothing attracted him more. His dream would have been a life in the United States Senate, as he himself told me.”
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This “modern Moses,” however, managed to escape capture and made nineteen perilous expeditions, leading to freedom more than three hundred slaves.
A reward of forty thousand dollars was offered by the South for her capture.
During the Civil War one of her services was acting as a spy for the Government.
She finally died a peaceful death a few years ago.
In the diary is an allusion to an anti-slavery convention held in Boston, January, 1870, at which Colonel Higginson gave some reminiscences of the fugitive-slave era.
Boston and New York. Houhgton Mifflin Company. 1921.
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