Abby Morton Diaz

Abby Morton Diaz (November 22, 1821 – April 1, 1904) was a teacher, women's rights organizer, and industrial reformer.

Early life She was born in 1821 in Plymouth, Massachusetts to Ichabod Morton, a prominent anti-slavery worker. She had five brothers and was the only daughter. One of her ancestors was George Morton, a Plymouth Pilgrim.

As a young girl, Diaz was the secretary of a juvenile anti-slavery society, to whose funds each member aimed to contribute twenty-five cents weekly, a large sum at the time. To raise half her contribution, she went without butter and knit garters. She was influence by anti-slavery leaders William Lloyd Garrison and Horace Mann. When it was clear that the community would not be a success, the Mortons returned to Plymouth. She wrote several pamphlets on the subject. At the end of the 19th century, she gave lecturers on the ethics of nationalism, Christian socialism, progressive morality, life, meaning of life, developing character in homes and schools, human nature, competition, and a series of papers on arbitration, first published in the Independent.

Diaz lived in her home in Belmont, Massachusetts, with her oldest son.

She was married to Emanuel Diaz, with whom she later separated, they had two sons.