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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 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 ...
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.
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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
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]
Douglass married twice. His first wife was named Elizabeth. [7] His second wife was activist Sarah Mapps Douglass. Between his two marriages, Douglass produced nine children. [7] His passion for education influenced his eldest daughters Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary, Caroline to acquire trades. [7]
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 ]