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By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com Guide to Women's History since 1999

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Thursday October 9, 2003
The first woman in American known to be ordained as a minister, as well as a women's rights activist, Antoinette Brown married one of the Blackwell brothers -- the other married Lucy Stone, and Antoinette's new sisters-in-law included pioneer physicians Elizabeth Blackwell and Emily Blackwell.

• Quotes from Antoinette Brown Blackwell
• Portrait of Antoinette Brown Blackwell
• The Blackwell Women

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