Biography: Frances Anne Rollin [1845-1901]

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Biography: Frances Anne Rollin [1845-1901]

08/02/2008

Biography

Black Past features a short biography (2008) on the life of Frances Anne Rollin- a free African American abolitionist, writer, teacher, doctor and suffragette. Themes include: her wealthy upbringing in Charleston, her discrimination lawsuit against a ferry captain, her controversial marriage to William J. Whipper (an African American attorney), Rollin's authorship and publication of Martin Delaney's biography and diary entries on racial violence during Reconstruction in South Carolina.

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