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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 ...
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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]
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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 ]
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