1. Anna Gardner was an American abolitionist and teacher, as well as an ardent reformer, a staunch supporter of women's rights, and the author of several volumes in prose and verse.
11 Facts About Anna Gardner
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Anna Gardner delivered many lectures during the years immediately preceding the American Civil War, and after the war, she taught in freedmen's schools in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
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Anna Gardner was a fluent writer, and in 1881, she published her best work in a volume of prose and verse entitled Harvest Gleanings.
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Anna Gardner was born on the island of Nantucket, January 25,1816.
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Anna Gardner became a student, teacher, lecturer, and worker in the cause of human liberty and equal rights.
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Anna Gardner was a regular reader of The Liberator when she was eighteen years old.
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Anna Gardner had been exhorting in the Methodist Church and was unprepared for the call made upon him.
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Anna Gardner spent many years in teaching the freed men in the South.
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Anna Gardner's work was done in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.
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Anna Gardner returned to the North in 1878, and in Brooklyn, New York, she was injured by a carriage accident.
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Besides her antislavery work, Anna Gardner worked in the cause of women's rights.