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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:
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]
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
Sarah Frew Davidson; Paulina Wright Davis; Alice Deal; Alice Chipman Dewey; Sarah Ann Dickey; Mamie Dillard; Clarissa Dixon; Sylvia Donaldson; Margaret Crittendon Douglass; Sarah Mapps Douglass; America McCutchen Drennan; Katharine Drexel; Julia Louisa Dumont; Emma B. Dunham; Harriet Thayer Durgin; Irene Clark Durrell
Sarah was the sixth child with Mary, and Angelina was the thirteenth. [10] In 1783, Grimké was elected chief judge of the Supreme Court of South Carolina. In 1810, Sarah and Angelina's uncle, Benjamin Smith, served as governor of North Carolina. [11] Sarah recalled being skeptical of slavery from a young age.
Chronicles of a Pioneer School from 1792 to 1833, Being the History of Miss Sarah Pierce and her Litchfield School. Cambridge, MA: University Press, 1903. Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. More Chronicles of a Pioneer School from 1792 to 1833: Being Added History on the Litchfield Female Academy kept by Miss Sarah Pierce and her Nephew John Pierce Brace.
A shared heritage: art by four African Americans by William E. Taylor and Harriet G. Warkel with essays by Margaret T. G. Burroughs and others (1996) The Beginner's Guide to Collecting Fine Art, African American Style Ana M. Allen and Margaret Taylor Burroughs (1998) The tallest tree in the forest (1998) Humanist and glad to be (2003)