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Lucy Stanton was born free, the only child of Margaret and Samuel Stanton, on October 16, 1831. [4] When her biological father Samuel, a barber, died when she was only 18 months old, Stanton's mother married John Brown, [5] an abolitionist famous around Cleveland, Ohio, for his participation in the Underground Railroad.
Black History Facts Society: 1. ... Educator and abolitionist Lucy Stanton was the first Black woman to graduate from college. She completed a ladies' literary program and graduated from Oberlin ...
October 16 – Lucy Stanton, abolitionist (died 1910) October 28 – Charles Colcock Jones Jr., Georgia politician, attorney, historian and folklorist (died 1893) October 29 – Othniel Charles Marsh, paleontologist (died 1899) October 31 – Romualdo Pacheco, Governor of California (died 1899)
Slavery in the colonial history of the US; Revolutionary War; Antebellum period; Slavery and military history during the Civil War; Reconstruction era. Politicians; Juneteenth; Civil rights movement (1865–1896) Jim Crow era (1896–1954) Civil rights movement (1954–1968) Black power movement; Post–civil rights era; Aspects; Agriculture ...
“Bars Fight,” written by poet and activist Lucy Terry in 1746, was the first known poem written by a Black American. Terry was enslaved in Rhode Island as a toddler but became free at age 26 ...
(British, aka Abolition Society) Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions, 1823–1838 (British, aka Anti-Slavery Society) Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage (American) Society of the Friends of the Blacks (Société des Amis des Noirs) (French) Testonites (British)
The first Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women was held in New York City on May 9–12, 1837, to discuss the American abolition movement. [1] This gathering represented the first time that women from such a broad geographic area met with the common purpose of promoting the anti-slavery cause among women, and it also was likely the first major convention where women discussed women's rights.
In 1840, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton traveled with their husbands to London for the first World Anti-Slavery Convention, but they were not allowed to participate because they were women. Mott and Stanton became friends there and agreed to organize a convention to further the cause of women's rights.