yr9_Elizabeth_Pease

** ** Here are some key details about my life. **  My name is Elizabeth Peace; I’m the daughter of Joseph Peace and Elizabeth Beaumont. I was born in 1807. i didn't have a brilliant life i had to cook and clean like my mother. i went to school twice a week at the age of 8. when i was 28 i decided to help women and men who were slaves because i had to cook and clean as a girl. my dad went to work and brought in a bit of money.
 * Elizabeth Peace.

I helped to get the slave trade abolish[[image:Elizabeth_Peace.jpg width="299" height="272" align="right"]]ed
In the following sorts of ways I attempted to persuade working-class women in Darlington to join the campaign against slavery. I supported a campaign for the 1832 reform act which enabled her father Joseph Peace, to become Britain’s first Quaker member of the House of Commons. I was in close contact with the Chartists in Darlington and helped to distribute their literature. In a letter to her friend, Anne Warren Weston, I pointed out that some of her friends considered her to be "ungentle" and "vulgar" because she was a supporter of universal suffrage.

I think my contributions were particularly important because without me
women wouldn't have power like they're strating to get also, the women would still be slaves for the men and would never be able to do what they want to do. //"I believe there are few persons whose natural feelings are so opposed to women appearing prominently before the public, as mine - but viewed in the light of principle I see, the prejudice - custom and other feelings which will not stand the test of truth, are at the bottom, and must be laid aside."//
 * My letter to John Collins (14th December, 1840)**