Matilda Joslyn Gage

Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826-1898) was a women's suffrage activist and author who was "born with a hatred of oppression". Her childhood was spent on a station of the underground railroad. She faced prison for her actions under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law that criminalized assistance to escaped slaves.

Considered to be more radical than either Susan B. Anthony or Elizabeth Cady Stanton (with whom she wrote The History of Women Suffrage). She decried the brutal treatment of Native Americans and unsucessfully tried to prevent conservative takeover of the women's suffrage movement.