World Anti-Slavery Convention Fallout: America 1840

by Geraldine Monk

Women abolitionists
denied their right to be and
speak at the 1840 conference they’d
facilitated returned home and home
for some was America a long way to
come to be snuffed out. Shouted down.
Putting their pretty little heads together
regrouped in the sealed lips of silencing.
a mob of lacy mobcaps —
fully loaded.