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About Margaretta Forten
Margaretta Forten was secretary of the Female Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia in 1845. Her parents, brothers, and sisters were all abolitionists. Margaretta was the daughter of a free-born African-American.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Forten
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=63250779
Teacher, abolitionist, suffragist. With her mother and sisters Harriet and Sarah, she was a founding member of the bi-racial Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society, of which she served as an officer throughout its history. She taught for at least thirty years; during the 1840s she taught at a school run by Sarah Mapps Douglass, and in 1850 she opened her own school.
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Margaretta Forten's Timeline
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1806
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| 1875 |
1875
Age 69
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