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Phillis Wheatly-Peters published "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral"
Phillis was the first published African American woman author in the United States. She published her first book while in London, titled "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral." -
Importing Slaves Becomes Illegal in America
The importation of enslaved people became illegal due to a bill passed by Congress. After this 250,000 more slaves were imported illegally. -
Jarena Lee's First Time Preaching
Jarena Lee, an African American woman, took over when her preacher seemed to lose spirit while preaching. This impressed her bishop, who then endorsed her, though he couldn't give her a license to preach. She then went on to become a traveling preacher. -
Maria Stewart held her first speech
Maria Stewart was the first woman to speak before a mixed audience of men and women, white and black. She was also the first African American woman to speak about woman's rights, especially those of black women. This day marks the first speech she gave, "Why Sit Ye Here and Die", this one about how African American women should be equal to men, and that black people were as subject to the north's racism as the south's. -
The Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society(PFASS) was founded
The PFASS was made the same year as the American Anti-Slavery Association and was a branch of it. It was made because women weren't allowed in the main association. It helped illustrate gender discrimination being prominent, even in anti-slavery/anti-racist associations. -
World Anti-Slavery Convention and Women's Participation
At the World Anti-Slavery Convention, women were only allowed in the spectator's seats, instead of the delegate's seats. In a protest for women's rights, a few male delegates such as William Garrison, Charles Remond, Nathaniel Rogers, and William Adams refused to take their seats as delegates, instead sitting with the women. -
The North Star established
The North Star was an anti-slavery newspaper made by Frederick Douglas. -
Frederick Douglass attends Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's right convention, where many people such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton were asking for women's rights. However, no black women were allowed, and Frederick Douglass may have been the only black person in attendance. At this convention he stood up for women's suffrage, saying he could not accept the right to vote as a black man if women could also not claim that right. He was possibly the first well known man to speak for women's suffrage. -
"Ain't I a Woman?"
Sojourner Truth made a speech at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio. In it, she talked about both women's rights and abolition. Several people in attendance recited this speech in the newspaper, but 12 years later one of the people running the convention published a very different and more circulated version of it where she had a speech pattern more associated with slaves. This later version is where the title comes from. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe released the two volumes of Uncle Tom's Cabin, an anti-slavery book that is said to have laid the ground work for the Civil War.