Alcott campaigned door-to-door for women’s suffrage in Massachusetts in the 1870s. She also used her influence to help other women’s rights advocates and convinced her publisher to release Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement by Harriet Hanson Robinson in 1881. Alcott died in 1888. /end

Alcott’s novel Little Women, while not overtly political, promoted feminist ideas by depicting characters such as Jo March, who was “rebellious and unwilling to let society define her future.” Her book Work (1873) explored women’s financial independence and self-definition outside of marriage. /6

Alcott became actively involved in the suffrage movement, going so far as to lead a procession to gain delegates for women’s suffrage. In 1879, she became the first woman to register to vote in Concord, Mass., after the passage of a state law allowing women to vote in school, tax and bond issues. /5

Even before achieving fame, Alcott championed women’s rights, a cause her mother was also passionate about. After years of working in various jobs that offered little opportunity for women, she vowed to “make a battering-ram of my head” to carve out a path for herself in a male-dominated world. /4

As a nurse during the Civil War, Alcott witnessed the human cost of slavery and the war, an experience that gave her a firsthand understanding of the struggle for emancipation. Her time as a nurse led to her writing Hospital Sketches, which provided a powerful account of the war’s human impact. /3

Alcott was raised in a household that was a key stop on the Underground Railroad, a role that deeply impressed upon her the cause of racial equality from a young age. She was committed to ending slavery and connected to other prominent abolitionists of her time, including Frederick Douglass. /2

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However, the case, widely publicized by Sharp and Equiano, became a rallying cry for British abolitionists. It contributed to the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, which abolished the slave trade in the British Empire, and the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, which abolished slavery. /end

The formerly enslaved writer and abolitionist Olaudah Equiano brought the case to the attention of the anti-slavery campaigner Granville Sharp. Sharp attempted to bring murder charges against the crew, but was unsuccessful. No one was ever prosecuted for the murders. /7

The ship’s owners filed a claim, but the insurers refused to pay, and the ensuing court case became a cause célèbre. The trial focused on whether the crew’s actions were a justified business decision. The Solicitor General argued that it was the same as if “horses had been thrown overboard.” /6

British law at the time allowed ship owners to claim insurance for enslaved people who died at sea to save the rest of the “cargo” or the ship, under a principle called “general average.” The crew decided to throw people overboard to ensure a financial claim, with each life valued at £30. /5