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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 ]
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]
In December 1833, after women were excluded from the American Anti-Slavery Society, a group of black and white women, which included Cyril Bustil's daughter Grace Douglass, and James Forten's daughters, Sarah, Harriet and Margaretta launched the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society (PFASS). [14]
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 ...
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 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
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