Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society Founded with Black Leaders

Lucretia Mott and Sarah Mapps Douglass co-founded the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society, one of the first interracial women's organizations in America. Black women including Douglass, Hetty Burr, and members of the Forten family, daughters of sailmaker and abolitionist James Forten, were founding members. The society petitioned Congress, ran schools, and produced a generation of activist women.