Sarah Mapps Douglass

Sarah Mapps Douglass (born and died in Philadelphia, USA; 9 September 1806 – 8 September 1882) was an abolitionist, educator, writer, painter, and public lecturer. Quotes One short year ago, how different were my feelings on the subject of slavery! It is true, the wail of the captive sometimes came to my ear in the midst of my happiness, and caused my heart to bleed for his wrongs; but, alas! the impression was as evanescent as the early cloud and morning dew. I had formed a little world of my own, and cared not to move beyond its precincts. But how was the scene changed when I beheld the oppressor lurking on the border of my own peaceful home! I saw his iron hand stretched forth to seize me as his prey, and the cause of the slave became my own. I started up, and with one nightly effort threw from me the lethargy which had covered me as a mantle for years; and determined, by the help of the Almighty, to use every exertion in my power to elevate the character of my wronged and neglected race. One year ago, I detested the slave-holder; now I can pity and pray for him. Speech at a meeting of the Female Literary Association, Philadelphia PA (June 1832). Published in The Liberator (July 21, 1832). Collected in The Black Abolitionist Papers, Volume 3, ed. C. Peter Ripley (1991), pp. 116-117. It is the only thing worth living for — the only thing that can disarm death of his sting. I am earnestly solicitous that each of us may adopt this language: “I have no hope in man, but much in God — Much in the rock of ages” Speech at a meeting of the Female Literary Association, Philadelphia PA (June 1832) Quotes about Miss Edmonia Lewis among sculptors, Mrs. S. M. Douglass and Miss [Rebecca J.] Cole among physicians, Miss Ketchum among clerks, illustrate an aptitude and ability among colored women which, if cordially recognized and encouraged by colored men in their more matured experience in these directions, would be the beginning of an era of thought and effort among colored women creditable to them as a class, and highly promotive of the general well-being. Mary Ann Shadd, "Report on Woman's Labor," Proceedings of the Colored National Labor Convention (1870). Collected in Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Black Radical Feminist edited by Nneka D. Dennie (2024) External links "Visual Feasts: The Art of Sarah Mapps Douglass" by Erika Piola Category:1806 births Category:1882 deaths Category:Educators from the United States Category:Abolitionists Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Painters from the United States Category:People from Philadelphia