Eunice Russ Ames Davis was a multiracial abolitionist and one of the founding members of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society.
12 Facts About Eunice Davis
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Eunice Davis was born Eunice Russ in North Andover, Massachusetts.
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Eunice Davis's father, Prince Ames, was a black American Revolutionary War patriot.
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Eunice Davis's mother, Eunice Russ, was born to a white mother and a Native American father.
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Eunice Davis's family resided in Lowell, Massachusetts, until Eunice was widowed in 1825.
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Eunice Davis was the president of the first independent Baptist Female Society and attended the Zion church in Boston, where she met other abolitionists.
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Eunice Davis worked with abolitionists Margarett Scarlett, Eliza Ann Logan Lawton, and Anna Logan to fight segregation in Boston's public schools.
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In 1833, Eunice Davis became an officer and a founder of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, where she helped to gather petition signatures in support of anti-slavery legislation.
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Eunice Davis actively supported other abolitionists, including William Lloyd Garrison, editor and publisher of The Liberator, which advocated against slavery among other issues.
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Eunice Davis died in Boston in 1901, outliving her husband and children.
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Eunice Davis is considered by the Daughters of the American Revolution to be a Real Daughter, meaning that she is a daughter, and not just a distant descendant, of a Revolutionary soldier or Patriot.
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Eunice Davis was a member of DAR's Old South Chapter of the DAR.