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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 ]
Sarah Mapps Douglass (cousin) Grace Douglass (aunt) Grace A. Mapps ( c. 1835 – June 11, 1897) [ 1 ] was an American educator, administrator and poet, [ 2 ] who may have been the first African-American woman to graduate with a four-year college degree. [ 3 ]
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]
Formal training and recognition of African-American women began in 1858 when Sarah Mapps Douglass was the first black woman to graduate from a medical course of study at an American university. [1] Later, in 1864 Rebecca Crumpler became the first African-American woman to earn a medical degree. The first nursing graduate was Mary Mahoney in 1879.
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 ...
Sarah Douglass may refer to: Sarah Mapps Douglass (1806–1882), American educator, abolitionist, writer, and public lecturer Sarah Hallam Douglass (died 1773), English-born American stage actress and theatre director
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Periods; Timeline; Atlantic slave trade; Abolitionism in the United States; Slavery in the colonial history of the US; Revolutionary War; Antebellum period