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"The International Traffic in Girls," June 1886
B. Abby Hopper Gibbons was the president of the New York State Committee from
1876 to 1893. Before the age-of-consent campaign, she was involved in activities to
reform ex-prostitutes. Gibbons started the Issac T. Hopper Home, which was a
halfway home for women who had recently left prison to enable them to readjust to
life in the outside world.
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C. Emily Blackwell, sister of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman in the United
States to receive a degree as doctor of medicine, was a leading moral educationist
in the years following the Civil War. For more on Blackwell's involvement in the ageof-consent
campaign, see Document 14.
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D. Anna Rice Powell was the wife of Aaron Powell. She was also a Vice President
of the American Purity Alliance when it was founded in 1895.
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E. Elizabeth Gay was a major leader in purity reform, serving as the treasurer of the
New York Committee and as a Vice President of the American Purity Alliance after
its founding in 1895.
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