Antoinette brown blackwell biography of william shakespeare

Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell made history when she became the first woman in the United States to be ordained by a recognized congregation.

In addition to her career as a preacher, Blackwell spent many years delivering speeches on behalf of the temperance movement, the abolition of slavery, and the right of women to vote.

She often toured with well-known suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Antoinette brown blackwell biography of william shakespeare

Blackwell was particularly influenced and emboldened by her friendship with abolitionist and suffragist Lucy Stone, a friend from college who later became a sister-in-law.

Antoinette Louisa Brown was born May 20, 1825, in Henrietta, New York, the seventh of Abigail Morse and Joseph Brown's ten children.

The family had a strong religious tradition. Together they frequented the Protestant revivals of Charles Grandison Finney in Rochester, New York. Blackwell's pious leanings were evident at an early age when the nine-year