“I love a flower!”
This page, taken from the Friendship album of Amy Matilda Cassey, was created by Sarah Mapps Douglass, an artist and prominent Quaker member of the Philadelphia African American elite community, was best known as an educator and anti-slavery activist.
Cassey was an abolitionist, temperance and civil rights activist and founding member of the interracial Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society and the African American literary and science society. This album is completely digitized and available on the Library Company’s image catalog.
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