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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]
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 ...
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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 ]
chelsea green publishing white river junction, vermont the end of america letter of warning to a young patriot naomi wolf eoa2 final pages 7/27/07 12:05 pm page i
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]
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]