African-American abolitionist, educator, and lecturer. Born the only daughter of prominent abolitionists Robert Douglass, Sr., a hairdresser, and Grace Bustill Douglass, a milliner. In 1827, she opened a school for black children. She was a founding member (1833) of the bi-racial Philadelphia Female Antislavery Society, for which she served as recording secretary, librarian, and manager. She attended several abolitionist conventions. She was the head of the girls' primary department at the Institute for Colored Youth (now Cheyney State University). In 1855, she married the Rev. William Douglass (d. 1862), rector of St. Thomas Protestant Episcopal Church, a widower with nine children. Throughout the 1830s she wrote poetry and prose under the pseudonyms "Sophanisba" and "Ella," contributing to the Liberator, the Colored American, and the Anglo-African Magazine.
African-American abolitionist, educator, and lecturer. Born the only daughter of prominent abolitionists Robert Douglass, Sr., a hairdresser, and Grace Bustill Douglass, a milliner. In 1827, she opened a school for black children. She was a founding member (1833) of the bi-racial Philadelphia Female Antislavery Society, for which she served as recording secretary, librarian, and manager. She attended several abolitionist conventions. She was the head of the girls' primary department at the Institute for Colored Youth (now Cheyney State University). In 1855, she married the Rev. William Douglass (d. 1862), rector of St. Thomas Protestant Episcopal Church, a widower with nine children. Throughout the 1830s she wrote poetry and prose under the pseudonyms "Sophanisba" and "Ella," contributing to the Liberator, the Colored American, and the Anglo-African Magazine.
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