Jane Elizabeth Jones

Jane Elizabeth Jones (March 13, 1813 – January 13, 1896) was an American suffragist and abolitionist and member of the early women's rights movement.

Jane Elizabeth Jones
Born	March 13, 1813 Vernon, New York
Died	January 13, 1896

Biography

Jane Elizabeth Hitchcock was born in Vernon, New York on March 13, 1813. Her parents were Reuben and Electra Hitchcock (née Spaulding) .[1]

Jones was known for her abolitionist views and traveled throughout New England, Pennsylvania, and Ohio as a lecturer in support of Garrisonian abolitionism.[1] In 1845, she traveled to Salem, Ohio with fellow abolitionist lecturer, Abby Kelley. The pair organized anti-slavery activities. [2] Hitchcock co-edited the Anti-Slavery Bugle along with Benjamin Jones who would become her husband. In 1850, she delivered a lecture before the Ohio Women's Convention in Salem, Ohio where she highlighted people in slavery and women, wishing that the term "Women's Rights" would go out of use and instead focus on human rights for all.[3] In 1861, Jones successfully lobbied with Frances Dana Barker Gage and Hannah Tracy Cutler for Ohio law to grant limited property rights to married women.[4]

In The Young Abolitionist; or Conversations on Slavery, Jones uses the form of a children's book to speak to women's political voices. Through her mother character who discusses with her children slavery in American history, providing a complete history to her reader.[1][2]

She died on January 13, 1896.[1]

Bibliography

• The young abolitionists, or, Conversations on Slavery. 1948.[5]
• The Wrongs of Women: An Address Delivered Before the Ohio Women's Convention, at Salem, April 19th, 1850. 1850.
• Address to the Women's Rights Committee of the Ohio Legislature. 1861.[2]

References

1. Rosa, Deborah C. De (2005-01-01). Into the Mouths of Babes: An Anthology of Children's Abolitionist Literature. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780275979515.
2. Rosa, Deborah C. De (2012-02-01). Domestic Abolitionism and Juvenile Literature, 1830–1865. SUNY Press. ISBN 9780791486306.
3. "J. Elizabeth Jones' "The Wrongs of Woman"" (PDF). April 19, 1850. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 January 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
4. "Frances Dana Barker Gage | American social reformer and writer". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
5. Jones, J. Elizabeth; Jones, Benjamin Smith (1848-01-01). The young abolitionists, or, Conversations on slavery.

Further reading

• editor, Edward T. James, editor ; Janet Wilson James, associate editor ; Paul S. Boyer, assistant (1974). Notable American Women, 1607–1950 : A Biographical Dictionary (3. print. ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674627345.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
• Bansal, Sujata; Bail, Scharada (2004). Icons of social change. New Delhi: Puffin Books. ISBN 9780143334835.</ref>