Read Part One HERE
In this story I will focus on a woman named Sarah Mapps Douglass. She lived from 1806 - 1882. Sarah was the daughter of renowed abolitionists Robert Douglass Sr and Grace Bustill Douglass and lived in Philadelphia. Like many prosperous families, the Douglasses educated Sarah and her brother Robert at home with private tutors.
Raised as a Quaker by her mother, Sarah was alienated by the blatant racial prejudice of many white Quakers. Her concern with discrimination within the Religious Society of Friends began when she was a child and observed that her mother was asked to sit either under the stairs or on a back bench at the nearby Arch Street Meeting.
Although she adopted Quaker dress and enjoyed the friendship of Quaker anti-slavery advocates like Lucretia Coffin Mott, she was highly critical of the Religious Society of Friends. Her mother continued to attend but Sarah eventually stopped.
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