Read Part One HERE
In this post I will continue to focus on a woman named Margaretta Forten. She lived from 1806 -1878. Margaretta continued her work with the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society and served as Recording Secretary. She also served on the Society's Educational Committee, which "dedicated itself to improving the quantity and quality of local black schools" and was successful in assuming the financial obligations of a primary school in Philadelphia for which Margaretta supervised the finances.
Margaretta was also active in support of womens' suffrage. With her sister, Harriet Forten Purvis, she helped to organise the Fifth National Woman's Rights Convention that met in Philadelphia in 1854, was a co-founder of the interracial Philadelphia Suffrage Association in 1866, and subsequently a member of the American Equal Rights Association.
Margaretta continued her emphasis on education to assist in the anti-slavery movement and worked as a teacher in many black schools for thirty years. She eventually opened up her own school.
Margaretta passed away in 1878.
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