Download or read book Abby Hopper Gibbons written by Margaret Hope Bacon and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-03-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first contemporary biography of Abby Hopper Gibbons, a nineteenth-century American social activist. Involved in a broad range of reform activities, she is particularly known for her pioneering efforts to improve the treatment of women prisoners.