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In this story I will continue to focus on a woman named Sarah Mapps Douglass. She lived from 1802 - 1882. Around 1827 Sarah established a school for black children. She also was an active abolitionist and joined her mother as a founding member of their bi-racial Female Phildelphia Anti-Slavery Society in 1833. Sarah served on the Society board of directors, the committee of annual fairs, the education committee, and as librarian and corresponding secretary.
Sarah and her husband forged social and political networks with both black and white abolitionists She maintained a long and close friendship with Angelina and Sarah Moore Grimke, daughters of South Carolina slave holders.
At the urging of the Grimke sisters, Sarah attended the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women in New York in 1837. This was the first national convention of American anti-slavery women to integrate black and white members.
During the 1830s and 1840s Sarah was beset by financial problems. Her school never operated at a profit, and in 1838, deciding that she could no longer accept the financial backing of her parents, she asked the Female Anti-Slavery Society to take over the school. The experiment proved unsatisfactory, however, and in 1840 she resumed direct control of the school, giving up a guaranteed salary for assistance in paying the rent.
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