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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 taught evening classes to African-American women at meetings of the Banneker Institute on issues of physiology and hygiene. [4] William T. Catto was a founding member of the Banneker Institute [5] [6] and wrote A Semi-Centenary Discourse: A History of the First African Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. [7]
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]
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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 ...
One of them was the abolitionist and feminist advocate Grace Douglass. Other notable descendants of Cyrus and Elizabeth Morey Bustill include the performer and activist Paul Robeson , the artist David Bustill Bowser , the educator, abolitionist and writer Sarah Mapps Douglass , the journalist and activist Gertrude Bustill Mossell , and the ...
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