Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell
“The first female minister”
Born into a farming family of seven children in 1825, Antoinette Louisa Brown (later Blackwell) was a strong dynamic girl. Even in her young age, she would rather do the “male chores” instead of the traditional women chores such as sewing. At the age of eight she decided to become a minister and, though she was discourages by others, her mother supported her dreams.
Driven by sheer determination and the support of her family, she entered the Theology Department at Oberlin College, regardless of the obstacles and objections of her professors. She finished her studies in 1850; however, she received her diploma 28 years later in 1878 along with an honorary master (M.A). She also obtained an honorary D.D. in 1908. In 1953 she was ordained at Congregational Church of South Butler, New York and became the first American female minister.
Beyond her ministry she was a reformer and an activist in the fight for women’s rights. She married abolitionist Samuel Blackwell, brother-in-law of fellow activist Lucy Stone, in 1856 and has five girls. Samuel supported her work in the ministry and the women’s right’s movement. He followed her in her speech tours and helped in raising and caring of their five girls.
At a time were female ministers was unthinkable even by her own women peers, Blackwell excelled and she ordained two more women ministers, Olympia Brown and her daughter Florence Blackwell.
Among her many roles as mother, wife, minister, activist, abolitionist, she also was a leader. She was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Unitarian Association, World's Temperance Convention and first national women's rights convention. In 1920, Blackwell was able to finally cast her vote and later died in 1921.
Books by Antoinette Blackwell
The Sexes Throughout Nature
Studies in General Science
The Physical Basis of Immortality
The Island Neighbors
Quotes
Mr. Darwin ... has failed to hold definitely before his mind the principle that the difference of sex, whatever it may consist in, must itself be subject to natural selection and evolution.
Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman.
If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off as a badge of poverty. The poor man's motto, "Women's work is never done," leads inevitably to its antithesis -- ladies' work is never begun.
Books about Antoinette Blackwell
Antoinette Brown Blackwell: A Biography
by Cazden, Elizabeth
Friends & Sisters
Letters Between Lucy Stone & Antoinette Brown Blackwell
by Carol Lasser; Marlene D. Merrill; Lucy Stone
Born into a farming family of seven children in 1825, Antoinette Louisa Brown (later Blackwell) was a strong dynamic girl. Even in her young age, she would rather do the “male chores” instead of the traditional women chores such as sewing. At the age of eight she decided to become a minister and, though she was discourages by others, her mother supported her dreams.
Driven by sheer determination and the support of her family, she entered the Theology Department at Oberlin College, regardless of the obstacles and objections of her professors. She finished her studies in 1850; however, she received her diploma 28 years later in 1878 along with an honorary master (M.A). She also obtained an honorary D.D. in 1908. In 1953 she was ordained at Congregational Church of South Butler, New York and became the first American female minister.
Beyond her ministry she was a reformer and an activist in the fight for women’s rights. She married abolitionist Samuel Blackwell, brother-in-law of fellow activist Lucy Stone, in 1856 and has five girls. Samuel supported her work in the ministry and the women’s right’s movement. He followed her in her speech tours and helped in raising and caring of their five girls.
At a time were female ministers was unthinkable even by her own women peers, Blackwell excelled and she ordained two more women ministers, Olympia Brown and her daughter Florence Blackwell.
Among her many roles as mother, wife, minister, activist, abolitionist, she also was a leader. She was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Unitarian Association, World's Temperance Convention and first national women's rights convention. In 1920, Blackwell was able to finally cast her vote and later died in 1921.
Books by Antoinette Blackwell
The Sexes Throughout Nature
Studies in General Science
The Physical Basis of Immortality
The Island Neighbors
Quotes
Mr. Darwin ... has failed to hold definitely before his mind the principle that the difference of sex, whatever it may consist in, must itself be subject to natural selection and evolution.
Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman.
If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off as a badge of poverty. The poor man's motto, "Women's work is never done," leads inevitably to its antithesis -- ladies' work is never begun.
Books about Antoinette Blackwell
Antoinette Brown Blackwell: A Biography
by Cazden, Elizabeth
Friends & Sisters
Letters Between Lucy Stone & Antoinette Brown Blackwell
by Carol Lasser; Marlene D. Merrill; Lucy Stone
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