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280:. To complicate the event, the Association had just purchased a new building to expand the school. Local whites were already critical over the expansion of colored education and were further agitated over the rumors of the possibility of the Woodwards marrying in the new Mission House. The situation resolved itself when the wedding "quietly" took place at a friend's house.
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who recalled her life as a slave. Horrified by the interview, Sara wrote: "Surely many a lessen of patient endurance in the difficulties which beset our work, may we learn from these lowly ones. Pray for me, dear friends. I would be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, but
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over the blacks immediately arrests the attention of the spectator... The
Caucasian element is largely ascendant, many of the children have blond and red hair and the peculiarly white transparent complexion which is their usual accompaniment. A woeful commentary on the hideous iniquity of Slavery."
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Her troubles compounded as the combination of her outspokenness and light-skin got her labelled as "haughty", not only with the white staff but at least one other black teacher as well. Miss
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Stanley's authorship of this petition, as it is attributed to a "Sara G. Staley," not "Stanley." However, Ellen NicKenzie Lawson argued in her book that "the petition has all the earmarks of Stanley's literary style, so it seems likely the typesetter misprinted her
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Stanley and white teacher, Mrs. Gleason, who expressed her displeasure with working alongside African American staff. Gleason wrote letters to the AMA asking that all African American teachers be removed from the mission house. Stanley was particularly offended.
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By the age of 18, like many of the educated free black women of her time, Stanley was an active abolitionist. She had grown up around enslaved people on her family's plantation and had family members who were enslaved. An outspoken leader, she earned a position as a representative in the
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January 16–18, 1856. Since women were not allowed inside, her petition was read aloud by delegate William Harris. It was titled: "To the Convention of Disenfranchised Citizens of Ohio". In the petition, Stanley appeals to the men's Christian faith in support of abolition, declaring that: "as
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during the Civil War. Charles, a trained mason, worked as a cashier at the
Freedmen's Bank after the war. He was four years younger than Stanley. Despite the fact that she was so fair and both of them had blue eyes, he was still white and she was acknowledged to be a proud black woman. There is
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Church and sat in one of the back two pews that were purchased by her grandfather John
Carruthers Stanly. In New Bern, it was not uncommon to see black and whites worshiping together, because during this time in North Carolina it was illegal for blacks to have their own churches.
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Woodwards spent several more years working and living in Mobile. Sara continued to teach with the AMA, moving to their training center at the Emerson Institute. She also worked part time with her husband at the
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of having an affair with another AMA teacher, Samuel Walker, who was white and married. Walker resigned his post over the scandal.
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