Abby Kelley and Stephen Foster

Location: Section 35

"Can't something be done to give Worcester a good shaking?" Abby Kelley Foster wrote in 1851 to Stephen, her husband of six years. Residents of Worcester for most of their married life, the Fosters were committed radicals who believed that the social problems of the nineteenth century — particularly slavery and equality for women — could be made right. They traveled the country lecturing and advocating for reform. Their home, 'Liberty Farm" on Mower Street, was a stop on the Underground Railroad. Both Fosters actively participated in the first Woman's Rights Convention in Worcester in 1850.