Women and African American History: 1840-1849
1840
• Lucretia Mott, Lydia Maria Child, and Maria Weston Chapman were the executive committee of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society
• World Anti-Slavery Convention in London would not seat women or allow them to speak; Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton met over this issue and their reaction led directly to organizing, in 1848, the first woman's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York
• Abby Kelley's new leadership role in the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) led some members to secede over women's participation
• (-1844) Lydia Maria Child and David Child edited Anti-Slavery Standard
1841
1842
• Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin born (journalist, activist, lecturer)
• Maria Weston Chapman organized the Anti-Slavery Fair in Boston
1843
• Sojourner Truth began her abolitionist work, changing her name from Isabella Van Wagener
• or 1845 (July 4 or 14) Edmonia Lewis born
1844
• Maria Chapman became an editor on National Anti-Slavery Standard
• Edmonia Highgate born (fundraiser, after the Civil War, for the Freedman's Association and the American Missionary Society, for educating freed slaves)
1845
• or 1843 (July 4 or 14) Edmonia Lewis born
1846
• Rebecca Cole born (second African American woman to graduate from medical school, worked with Elizabeth Blackwell in New York)
1847
1848
• (July 19-20) Woman's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, included among its attendees Frederick Douglass and other male and female antislavery activists; 68 women and 32 men signed the Declaration of Sentiments
• (July) Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery, returning repeatedly to free more than 300 slaves
1849
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