Julia Griffiths was a British Abolitionist who worked with Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing...

. The two met in [Newcastle-Upon-Tyne]] during Douglass' tour of the British Isles in 1845-47. In 1849, Griffiths joined Douglass Rochester Rochester, and edited, published and promoted many of his works. She was one of six founding members of the influential Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society. She is most noted for publishing Autographs for Freedom, an anthology of anti-slavery literature. There were accusations, leveled by William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society, he promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United...

, that Douglass and Griffiths engaged in infidelity.