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Women on the North American Canadian Frontier in 19C - by Dutch-born...
Cornelius Krieghoff was born in Amsterdam, spent his formative years in Bavaria, and studied in Rotterdam & Dusseldorf. He traveled to the United States in the 1830s, where he served in the Army...
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Ex-slave Louise Mathews, about 83, Remembers 19C America
Louise remembered, "Marster Turner am very reasonable 'bout de wo'k. He wants a good days wo'k, an' all de cullud fo'ks gives it to him. Weuns had Saturday afternoons off, an' co'se, Sundays too. Weuns...
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Women on the North American Canadian Frontier in 19C - by Dutch-born...
Cornelius Krieghoff was born in Amsterdam, spent his formative years in Bavaria, and studied in Rotterdam & Dusseldorf. He traveled to the United States in the 1830s, where he served in the Army...
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Ex-slave Tempie Cummins Remembers 19C America
Tempie remembered,"Mother was workin' in the house, and she cooked too. She say she used to hide in the chimney corner and listen to what the white folks say. When freedom was 'clared, marster wouldn'...
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Ex-slave Amy Chapman, about 94, Remembers 19C America
Amy recounted, "One day Marse Reuben come home an' when he foun' out dat de overseer was mean to de slaves he commence to give him a lecture, but when Miss Ferlicia tuk a han' in de business, she...
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Women on the North American Canadian Frontier in 19C - by Dutch-born...
From Europe to the Atlantic coast of America & on to the Pacific coast during the 17C-19C, settlers moved West encountering a variety of Indigenous Peoples who had lived on the land for centuries....
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Early African American Evangelist Jarena Lee 1783-1857 - Preaching in...
Jarena Lee was the 1st woman to preach under the auspices of the AME church. The child of free black parents, Lee was born in New Jersey in 1783, & worked as a servant in the home of a white...
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Ex-slave Siney Bonner Remembers 19C America
Ex-slave Siney BonnerSiney related,"Yes suh, we was all Baptis' - de deep water kind, and every Sunday dey used to pile us into de waggins and pull out bright and early for Big Creek Church on the...
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Early African American Evangelist Jarena Lee 1783-1857 - "A speaking woman is...
Jarena Lee was the 1st woman to preach under the auspices of the AME church. The child of free black parents, Lee was born in New Jersey in 1783, & worked as a servant in the home of a white...
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Early African American Evangelist Jarena Lee 1783-1857 - Back to Philadelphia...
Jarena Lee was the 1st woman to preach under the auspices of the AME church. The child of free black parents, Lee was born in New Jersey in 1783, & worked as a servant in the home of a white...
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Ex-slave Lizzie Jones Remembers 19C America
Ex-slave Lizzie Jones, about 86 years oldLizzie remembered, "The slaves slep' on bunks of homemade boa'ds nailed to the wall, wid poles fer legs. They cooked on the fire-place. I did'n know what a...
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Early African American Evangelist Jarena Lee 1783-1857 - Do coloured people...
Jarena Lee was the 1st woman to preach under the auspices of the AME church. The child of free black parents, Lee was born in New Jersey in 1783, & worked as a servant in the home of a white...
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US Women Fighting for Equality - Abby Hadassah Smith (1797-1878) & Julia...
Born today in 1797, Abby Hadassah Smith (1797-1878) & her sister Julia Evelina Smith, (1792-1886). The sisters were American suffragists who relentlessly protested for their property & voting...
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US Women Fighting for Equality - The Grimke Sisters - Sarah 1792-1873 and...
Sarah Moor Grimke (1792-1873) and Angelina Emily Grimke (1805-1879), abolitionists and woman’s rights pioneers, were born in Charleston, South Carolina. Sarah was the 6th of 14 children, Angelina the...
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US Women Fighting for Equality - Susan B. Anthony 1820-1906
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) is perhaps the most widely known suffragist of her generation and has become an icon of the woman’s suffrage movement. Anthony traveled the country to give speeches,...
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US Women Fighting for Equality - Evangelist Phoebe Worrall Palmer (1807-1874)
Phoebe Worrall Palmer (1807-1874) Born Phoebe Worrall on Dec. 11, 1807 in NYC to devout Methodist parents. In 1827, she married Walter Clarke Palmer, a 24 year old physician who was also a devout...
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US Women Fighting for Equality - 1850 Letter from Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Daughter, Harriot, Photograph taken circa 1890-1910 of a daguerreotype taken 1856.LETTER To Women's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, Sunday, Oct. 20, 1850.As you have handed...
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US Women Fighting for Equality - The Women's Rights movement & the...
Neither Ballots nor Bullets: The Contest for Civil Rights"Women can neither take the Ballot nor the Bullet . . .therefore to us, the right to petition is the one sacred right which we ought not to...
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US Women Fighting for Equality - Call to the 1st US Women's Rights Convention...
Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the National Portrait GalleryA CONVENTIONWill be held at Worcester, Mass., on the twenty-third and twenty-fourth of October next, (agreeably to appointment by a preliminary...
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US Women Fighting for Equality - Lucy Stone 1818-1893
Lucy Stone (1818-1893) was an early advocate of antislavery and women’s rights. She was born in Massachusetts. After she graduated from Oberlin College in 1847, she began lecturing for the antislavery...
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