Sarah Pugh

Sarah Pugh (6 October 1800 – 1 August 1884) was an American abolitionist, activist, suffragist, and teacher.

[5] Along with Lucretia Mott, Pugh was one of the delegates to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London who were denied their seats because they were women.

[3][4] When her father died when she was three, her family moved to Chester County, Pennsylvania, and a few years later to Philadelphia, where Pugh's mother and aunt established a dressmaking business.

[7] The American Anti-Slavery Society's founding convention called for the creation of more women's groups.

A doer, not a strategist, Pugh led the annual craft fair that raised substantial funds for Pennsylvania's abolitionists.

This baffled the onlookers, who were distracted by the show of solidarity long enough for all the women to escape the burning building.

[1][3][4] In June 1840, Pugh was chosen as a delegate to attend the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, along with Mott, Mary Grew, Elizabeth Neall, and Abby Kimber.

[3] In 1876, she signed the Declaration of Rights for Women, a protest of the National Woman Suffrage Association at the Centennial Exposition, the first World's Fair in the United States.