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Margaretta Forten

Birth
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
14 Jan 1875 (aged 68)
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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Teacher, abolitionist, suffragist. With her mother and sisters Harriet and Sarah, she was a founding member of the bi-racial Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society, of which she served as an officer throughout its history. She taught for at least thirty years; during the 1840s she taught at a school run by Sarah Mapps Douglass, and in 1850 she opened her own school.
Teacher, abolitionist, suffragist. With her mother and sisters Harriet and Sarah, she was a founding member of the bi-racial Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society, of which she served as an officer throughout its history. She taught for at least thirty years; during the 1840s she taught at a school run by Sarah Mapps Douglass, and in 1850 she opened her own school.


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  • Created by: Margaret Orthodox
  • Added: Dec 23, 2010
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63250779/margaretta-forten: accessed ), memorial page for Margaretta Forten (11 Sep 1806–14 Jan 1875), Find a Grave Memorial ID 63250779, citing Saint James the Less Episcopal Churchyard, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by Margaret Orthodox (contributor 47080490).