Margaret Washington

It is a mystery why ST took only one child with her, leaving three others in slavery, and why she continued in later years to express attachment to John Dumont . Some biographers have suspected...

Tillie Olsen in 1978 named ST as one of the mosts eloquent users of spoken works in her time. During the 1990s and early twenty-first century a series of important new studies of ST

Biographer Margaret Washington thinks that ST began public witness against slavery seven years earlier than formerly supposed: that she must be the colored woman who spoke this day at New York's Sixth Street Methodist (Colored)...