Sarah Parker Remond
| Sarah Kathleen Sequoia Parker Jacquelina Remond | |
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| Born |
June 6, 1815 Salem, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | December 13, 1894 (aged 79) Florence, Italy |
| Alma mater |
Bedford College for Women, London |
| Occupation | Activist, physician |
| Spouse(s) | Lazzaro Pintor Cabras |
| Parent(s) | John Remond (father) Nancy Lenox (mother) |
| Relatives |
Charles Lenox Remond (brother) Caroline Remond Putnam (sister) Cecilia Remond Putnam (sister) Marchita Remond (sister) |
Sarah Parker Remond (June 6, 1815 – December 13, 1894) was an African-American lecturer, abolitionist, and agent of the American Anti-Slavery Society. She made her first speech against slavery when she was only sixteen years old. Late in life she became a physician in Italy. As a young woman, Remond delivered speeches throughout the Northeast United States against slavery. She was chosen to travel to England to gather support for the abolitionist cause in the United States and, after the American Civil War started, for support of the Union Army and the Union blockade of the Confederacy. She was the sister of orator Charles Lenox Remond and sometimes they toured together for anti-slavery lectures.
From England Remond went to Italy in 1866, where she started medical training and became a physician. She practiced medicine for nearly 20 years in Florence and married there, never returning to the United States.
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Remond was one of eight children of John Remond and Nancy Lenox. Her mother Nancy was born in Newton, daughter of a Revolutionary War veteran; Sarah's father John Remond was a free person of color who was brought in 1798 to Massachusetts from the Dutch island of Curaçao at the age of ten. In Salem, the Remonds built a successful catering, provisioning, and hairdressing business. They prospered and valued education, encouraging their children's ambitions. They still suffered from racism and the children attended a segregated school. Remond was mostly self-educated, attending concerts and lectures, reading widely in books, pamphlets and newspapers borrowed from friends or purchased from the anti-slavery society of her community, which sold many titles at a cheap price. The Remond family also took in students who were studying at the local girls academy, including Charlotte Forten (later Grimké).
The family continued as entrepreneurs. Her three sisters: Cecilia Remond (wife of James Babcock), Maritchie Juan Remond, and Caroline Remond Putnam (married to Joseph Putnam), "owned the fashionable Ladies Hair Work Salon" in Salem, as well as the biggest wig factory in the state. She also had a sister Nancy, the eldest and wife of James Shearman, an oyster dealer. Their brothers were Charles, abolitionist; and John Remond, who married Ruth Rice.
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