Mary and Emily Edmonson, sisters escaped from enslavement

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Title: Mary and Emily Edmonson, sisters escaped from enslavement
Description: Mary and Emily Edmonson, sisters escaped from enslavement
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Language: English
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Caption: Mary and Emily Edmonson were two sisters who escaped slavery and joined the Abolitionist cause in the North in 1848, working with Frederick Douglass and others reformers. They attended Oberlin, and Emily, who survived for a longer life, did go into teaching. While we cannot discern exactly who the student at the Canterbury Female Academy was who received the aid of a formerly enslaved woman, the remarkable story of the Edmonson sisters gives us yet another example of the striving for freedom and for intellectual growth so often seen in relation to Black women's education.