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... (4)showing the religious and paternalistic concerns of the reformers. This image of the slave woman is then compared to the white woman, who was considered an "Angel in the House"(5) when she remained silent and invisible in public, but played a more active role at home. Part one discusses the French abolitionist image of a "fettered slave," which dates from 1789. As early as 1830, Philadelphia poet Elizabeth Chandler issued appeals and letters to American women to free slaves from their bondage. She was the first American writer to make the image of a female slave a subject of her poems(22). Black abolitionists Sarah Mapps, Douglass and Sarah Forten copied the motif for use in needlepoint and letters. (24) Other antislavery writers like William Lloyd Garrison and Lydia Maria Child duplicated the image in their newspapers and books.(35) In 1836, members of the Boston Female Antislavery Society used the ...