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made eight years later calling for women’s equality, Chandler did suggest a more radical
use for the rhetoric of domesticity.
In 1830, Chandler moved with her brother and aunt to Lenawee County,
Michigan, settling along the Raisin River, as part of a larger movement of pioneers into
the state. Though the area was relatively unsettled, a large and growing group of Quakers
were settling the region. Many of Chandler’s friends worried that her removal from
Philadelphia to the frontier of Michigan would isolate her from the abolitionist
movement. Indeed, because she was in Michigan at the time, Chandler was not in
Philadelphia for the inaugural issue of the Liberator, was absent from the meetings that
established the American Anti-Slavery Society and the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery
Society, and she did not travel with her friend Lydia White to aid Prudence Crandall. 90
Still, Chandler remained closely connected to the larger abolitionist community reading
as many as eight to ten newspapers regularly, aiding the establishment of a library
company in Adrian, and maintaining a close correspondence with her friends and family
in Philadelphia. Her ties as well to Lundy and Garrison assured her of a continued
connection to the abolitionist movement. 91
After her death in 1834, Chandler was eulogized by Garrison as a “meritorious
female abolitionist.” In his obituary, Garrison reprinted the first stanza of “Think of Our
Country’s Glory.” He also announced his desire to write her biography and to compile
“the best of her productions in a small volume.” Initially, the Chandler family welcomed
90 For more on Prudence Crandall, see Rycenga, “A Greater Awakening.” [[page numbers]]
91 Dillon, “Elizabeth Margaret Chandler,” 481-494.
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