Friends of Sleepy Hollow Host Event: Honoring Town’s Women’s Abolitionist Movement
Recognizing Black History and Women’s History Months, the Board of Directors of The Friends of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery proudly announces its 17th Annual Breakfast Event on Saturday, March 2, at Concord’s Colonial Inn.
Its focus is “Concord’s Own Great Army of Silent Workers: The Women of the Concord Female Anti-Slavery Society.”
The informative Event will present speakers, Dr. Jennifer Burton and Dr. Julie Dobrow, Tufts University Professors, Researchers, and co-Directors of Half the History Project which aims to tell the untold and under-told inspirational and important stories to new generations. The Friends is privileged to welcome both scholars.
The uniqueness of Concord’s Women’s Abolition Group from others is its composition which included black women such as Susan Garrison and her daughters Ellen and Susan, Jr., and white women like Mary Merrick Brooks, Lidian Jackson Emerson, and Sophia Thoreau.
