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Sarah Mapps Douglass (September 9, 1806 – September 8, 1882) was an American educator, abolitionist, writer, and public lecturer. Her painted images on her written letters may be the first or earliest surviving examples of signed paintings by an African American woman. [ 1 ]
Grace Mapps died in 1833, and David Mapps remarried in 1835. [2] His second wife, Anna Douglass Mapps, was a teacher. [2] An anecdote told of Isaac Hopper, abolitionist and participant in the Underground Railroad, [5] referred specifically to the Mapps family:
Free black females helped organize the society as well. Prominent individuals included Grace Bustill Douglass and Sarah Mapps Douglass, Hetty Reckless, and Charlotte Forten (wife of notable abolitionist James Forten) and her daughters, Harriet, Sarah, and Margaretta. These women represented the city's African American elite. [5]
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1809, Robert Douglass Jr. was the son of the abolitionist and community leaders Robert Douglass Sr., from the Caribbean island of St Kitts, and Grace Bustill Douglass, daughter of Cyrus Bustill. His sister was artist and abolitionist Sarah Mapps Douglass; he also had four other siblings. [2]
“The next year, as I was still scribbling my own stories, my English teacher (bless you, Mrs. Jacobsen!) introduced me to the Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien,” the biography read.
Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis and her sisters received private educations and were members of the Female Literary Association, a sisterhood of Black women founded by Sarah Mapps Douglass, another woman of a prominent abolitionist family in Philadelphia. Sarah began her literary legacy through this organization where she anonymously developed ...
A "beloved" Christian school art teacher was arrested after she was allegedly caught on camera blending a heart-stopping poison into her husband's smoothie, Missouri police said Friday.
Sarah McBride’s parents, Sally and Dave, at home in Wilmington, Del., on Sept. 10. For her part, McBride, a Democrat, said becoming a historic first wouldn’t be enough — she wants to ensure ...