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Photographer: Hathi Trust
Caption: Mary and Emily Edmonson
Additional Description: Abolitionists encouraged the freed sisters to become teachers and, by 1853, Mary (left) and Emily (right) were studying at Oberlin College. Mary died of tuberculosis soon after; Emily returned to Washington, D.C., to help educate young black women. Emily married shortly before the Civil War and eventually moved to Anacostia with her husband. She remained a life-long friend of her neighbor, Frederick Douglass. Emily died in 1895.

From Fugitives of the Pearl, by John H. Paynter, c.1930, following Page 64.
Submitted: March 30, 2021, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p576091
File Size: 0.546 Megabytes

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