University Archives

Speaker or author: Douglass, S. M. (Sarah Mapps), 1806-1882

Newspaper or publication: Liberator

Address given at the first of planned monthly womens' meetings ("Mental Feasts") for "the purpose of moral and religious meditation, conversation, reading and speaking, sympathising over the fate of the unhappy slaves, improving their own minds, &c. &c."

Description of file(s): PDF 3 page, 630 word document (text and images)

Subjects: Abolitionists--United States; African American abolitionists; Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery; United States--History--19th century

Keywords: Mental Feast; moral development; Philadelphia; women

Publication type: Newspapers; Speeches

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