Women and African American History: 1830-1839
1830
1831
• (September) men and women of the slave ship Amistad demand that the US recognize their freedom
• (-1861) Underground Railroad helped thousands of African American men, women, and children to freedom in the Northern states and Canada
1832
• Maria W. Stewart begins series of four public lectures on religion and justice, advocating for racial equality, racial unity and standing up for rights among African Americans.
• Female Anti-Slavery Society was founded in Salem, Massachusetts, by and for African American women
• Oberlin College founded in Ohio, admitting women and African Americans as students along with white men
1833
• Lydia Maria Child published An Appeal in Favor of the Class of Americans Called Africans
• American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) founded, with four women attending, Lucretia Mott spoke
• Lucretia Mott and others founded the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society
• Oberlin Collegiate Institute opened, the first coeducational college and the first to accept African American students (later renamed Oberlin College)
• in Connecticut, Prudence Crandall admitted an African American student to her girls' school, reacted to disapproval by dismissing the white students in February and, in April, reopened it as a school for African American Girls
• (May 24) Connecticut passed a law forbidding the enrollment of black students from outside the state without the permission of the local legislature, under which Prudence Crandall was jailed for one night
• (August 23) Prudence Crandall's trial began (see May 24). The defense used a constitutionality argument that free African Americans had rights in all states. The judgment went against Crandall (July 1834) but the Connecticut Supreme Court reversed the lower court's decision, though not on Constitutional grounds.
1834
• (September 10) Prudence Crandall closed her school for African American girls in the face of harassment
• Maria Weston Chapman began her work as an abolitionist -- she's known for her work with the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society
1835
1836
• Angelina Grimké published her antislavery letter, "Appeal to the Christian Women of the South" and her sister Sarah Moore Grimké published her anti-slavery letter, "Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States"
• Lydia Maria Child published her Anti-Slavery Catechism
• Maria Weston Chapman published Songs of the Free, and Hymns of Christian Freedom
• (-1840) Maria Weston Chapman edited the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society annual reports, titled Right and Wrong in Boston
• Fannie Jackson Coppin born (educator)
1837
• William Lloyd Garrison and others won the right of women to join the American Anti-Slavery Society, and for the Grimke sisters and other women to speak to mixed (male and female) audiences
• Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women held in New York
• Angelina Grimke published her "Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States"
• Charlotte Forten born (educator, diarist)
1838
• Angelina Grimke spoke to the Massachusetts legislature, the first woman to address an American legislature
• Grimke sisters published American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses
• (and 1839) Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women met in Philadelphia
1839
• (-1846) Maria Weston Chapman published Liberty Bell
• (-1842) Maria Weston Chapman helped edit The Liberator and Non-Resistant, abolitionist publications
• women permitted to vote for the first time at an annual convention of the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS)
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