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In this story I will continue to focus on a woman named Sarah Mapps Douglass. She lived from 1802 - 1882. Sarah repeatedly stressed the need of African American women to educate themselves. In 1831 she had helped to organise the Female Literary Society and on the eve of the Civil War she founded the Sarah M. Douglass Literary Circle.
After the passing of her husband in 1861, Sarah devoted her time to anti-slavery activities and continued teaching. Throughout her abolitionist career she gave as well numerous lecturers.
After the Civil War Sarah became a leader in the Pennsylvania Branch of the American Freedman's Aid Commission, which worked to protect and provide services to the former slaves in the South.
Through the 1860s and 1870s Sarah continued her work of reform, lecturing, raising money for Southern freedmen and women, helping to establish a home for elderly and indigent black Philadelphians and teaching at the Institute for Coloured Youth.
Sarah died in 1882.
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