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19thc Abolitionist Quaker Woman African American Freed Slave Kansas School Advert

19thc Abolitionist Quaker Woman African American Freed Slave Kansas School Advert

$750.00

Elizabeth L. Comstock (1815-91) a British native raised in Quaker schools immigrated to Ontario to join her sister when her husband died. It was there that Comstock became a Quaker minister, quickly moving to Michigan where she was instrumental in the Rollins Underground Railroad branch. During Reconstruction, Comstock toured for the sake of the Exodusters, the Southern migration of now...

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Elizabeth L. Comstock (1815-91) a British native raised in Quaker schools immigrated to Ontario to join her sister when her husband died. It was there that Comstock became a Quaker minister, quickly moving to Michigan where she was instrumental in the Rollins Underground Railroad branch. During Reconstruction, Comstock toured for the sake of the Exodusters, the Southern migration of now free blacks to first Illinois and then Kansas. 

It is unclear whether Elizabeth was the founder of the Agricultural & Industrial Institute for Refugees in Columbus Kansas, though she is always credited as the secretary. It appears that a combination of the Freedman’s Bureau of Kansas and her fundraising tours (very analogous to Booker T Washington’s for Tuskegee just a decade later) paid the bills. This card was likely obtained at one of those lectures. 

Measures 3.5 x 5” thin stock trade card w/ a reprinted image from St. Nicholas showing integrated children getting better acquainted. Clean & bright condition. 

Rare piece from the earliest days of the freed slave Great Northern Migration / Reconstruction Social Reform in the late 19thc.