14 Facts About Edmonson sisters

The Edmonson sisters were the daughters of Paul and Amelia Edmonson, a free black man and an enslaved woman in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Edmonson sisters purchased land in the Norbeck area of Montgomery County, where he farmed and established his family.

The Edmonson sisters were handled brusquely and exposed to obscene comments.

Beecher's church members raised the funds to purchase the Edmonson sisters and give them freedom.

In describing the role that women such as the Edmonson sisters played in such well-publicized political theater, a scholar at the University of Maryland asserted in 2002:.

Edmonson sisters's casting choices could only work with beautiful, fair-skinned women.

In summer 1850, the Edmonson sisters attended the Fugitive Slave Convention, an anti-slavery meeting in Cazenovia, New York, organized by local abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld and others, to demonstrate against the Fugitive Slave Act, soon to be passed by the US Congress.

At this convention, the Edmonson sisters were included in a historic daguerreotype photograph taken by Theodore Dwight Weld's brother, Ezra Greenleaf Weld.

In 1853, the Edmonson sisters attended the Young Ladies Preparatory School at Oberlin College in Ohio through the support of Beecher and his sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Six months after arriving at Oberlin, Mary Edmonson sisters died of tuberculosis.

For protection, the Edmonson sisters family moved to a cabin on the grounds.

At age 25 in 1860, Emily Edmonson sisters married Larkin Johnson.

Edmonson sisters maintained her relationship with fellow Anacostia resident Frederick Douglass, and both continued working in the abolitionist movement.

Emily Edmonson sisters Johnson died at her home on September 15,1895.