Identifier: womenofdistincti00scru (find matches)
Title: Women of distinction : remarkable in works and invincible in character
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Scruggs, L. A. (Lawson Andrew), 1857-1914
Subjects: North Caroliniana African American women African Americans Women
Publisher: Raleigh : L. A. Scruggs
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation

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telle Harris _ .. 158 Pclham., Miss Meta E 272 Puree, Mrs. C. L. - 306 CONTENTH. XX 111 Page. Pace, Mrs. Dinah Watts . 352 Patton, Georgia Esther Lee, M. D 364 Ruffin, Mrs. Josephine St. Pierce — 144 Smith, Mrs. Amanda .-- 57 Scotia Seminary 97 Scott, Mrs. Charlotte -- 102 Selika, Madam . 361 Shorter, Mrs. Susie Isabella Lankford 162 • Smith, Miss Lucy Wilmot 165 St. Augustine School 178 Spencer, Miss EllaD. 231 Smith, Mrs. Christine S. -_. 251 Stumm, Mrs. C. C 270 Sneed, Mrs. Lavinia B. 270 Scott, Mrs. Virginia E. M. Hunt 280 ^mith, Miss Willie Ann 298 s/Scruggs, Mifes Lucie Johnson . 231 Truth, Sojourner 48 Tillman, Mrs. Kate D. Chapman 203 Tilghman, Miss A. L. -■— 211 Terrell, Mary Church, A. B., A. M 227 Thomas, Mrs. Lillian May 235 Wheatley, Phillis ._- i Washington, Mrs. Josephine Turpin 89 Williams, Mrs. Ella V. Chase 95 Wells, Ida B., A. M. 33 Women of the A. M. E. Church 148 Washington, Mrs. Rachel M. 273 Webb, Mrs. M. R. Rodgers 287 Yates, Mrs. Josephine A. Silone 40
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WOMEN OF DISTINCTION. CHAPTER I. PHIIvUS WHEATLEY. In 1761, when the inhabitants of Africa were stolenby cruel hands and brought to America, the sweetland of liberty, and sold, as so many cattle, under theprotection of the flag of this land of the pilgrimspride, among the cargo of this human freight thatwas put upon the market at Boston, Mass., was a collec-tion of little children, one of whom was the afterwardsfamous Phillis Wheatley. A lady of some prominence, Mrs. John Wheatley,desiring to purchase a bright little girl whom she mighttrain for a suitable staff upon which to depend for servicein old age, went to this market, and of all the many shesaw none so attracted her admiration as a delicate,meek, intelligent-looking little girl about seven years old,whose nakedness was covered only by a piece of dirtycarpet drawn about her loins. Mrs. Wheatley madethe purchase with the intention of making a faithfuldomestic of her, but the wholesome effects of clothing,along with general clean

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