Sarah Mapps News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Stacker scoured archives and historical sources to compile a list of 16 lesser-known women who were heroes of the abolitionist movement.

Stacker scoured archives and historical sources to compile a list of 16 lesser-known women who were heroes of the abolitionist movement.

Stacker scoured archives and historical sources to compile a list of 16 lesser-known women who were heroes of the abolitionist movement.

Stacker scoured archives and historical sources to compile a list of 16 lesser-known women who were heroes of the abolitionist movement.

African American mother and children in peach vignette, c. 1885. Smithsonian American Art Museum. As Black parents attempted to reunify their families in the wake of gradual emancipation, institutionalization, and indenture in the early nineteenth century, the discourse on Black child-rearing evolved to reflect their daily activism. The treatment of African American children and the activism of their parents were often led by Black women, who renegotiated racialized constructions of motherhood depicting “deviant,” powerless Black mothers. In their actions and discourse, northern African A...