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Amy Matilda Williams Cassey (born 14 August 1809) was an African American abolitionist and was active with [[Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society]]. Amy died on the 15th of August |
Amy Matilda Williams Cassey (born 14 August 1809) was an African American abolitionist and was active with the [[Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society]]. Amy Cassey was a member of the group of elite African Americans to found the Gilbert Lyceum.<ref name=":0" /> Amy died on the 15th of August 1856 in Salem, Massachusetts.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Elite of our People: Josephs Willson's Sketches of Black Upper-Class Life in Antebellum Philadephia|last=Winch|first=Julie|publisher=The Pennsylvania State University Press|year=2000|isbn=|location=University Park, Pennsylvania|pages=167}}</ref> |
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In 1841 Amy and Joseph Cassey along with other abolitionists of the time founded the Gilbert Lyceum. The Gilbert Lyceum was the only co-ed literary society in Philadelphia and included literary and scientific interests equally.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Martin|first=Tony|date=2002|title=The Banneker Literary Institute of Philadelphia: African American Intellectual Activism before the War of the Slaveholders' Rebellion|url=|journal=The Journal of African American History|volume=87|pages=303-322|via=JSTOR}}</ref> |
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Amy Matilda Williams Cassey
Amy Matilda Williams Cassey (born 14 August 1809) was an African American abolitionist and was active with the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. Amy Cassey was a member of the group of elite African Americans to found the Gilbert Lyceum.[1] Amy died on the 15th of August 1856 in Salem, Massachusetts.[2]
Early Life
Amy was born into a prominent African American family, in New York, to Sarah and Peter Williams Jr. Her father, Peter Williams Jr., founded and was the pastor of St. Phillips black Episcopal church in lower Manhattan.
Black newspapers and organizations in her early teens
African Free School - educated
Philadelphia
When Amy was seventeen, she married a businessman from Philadelphia named Joseph Cassey, after they married, she moved with him to Philadelphia.
Activism
Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society
Several reform and educational societies
Female Literary Association
In 1841 Amy and Joseph Cassey along with other abolitionists of the time founded the Gilbert Lyceum. The Gilbert Lyceum was the only co-ed literary society in Philadelphia and included literary and scientific interests equally.[1]
Friendship Albums
See Also
External Links
https://blackpast.org/aah/cassey-amy-matilda-williams-1808-1856
https://blackpast.org/aah/cassey-house
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3ACASS1?display=list
References
Armstrong, Erica R. "A Mental and Moral Feast: Reading, Writing, and Sentimentality in Black Philadelphia." Journal of Women's History 16, no. 1 (Spring, 2004): 78-102.
Cobb, Nichole Jasmine. ""Forget me Not": Free Black Women and Sentimentality." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. 40, no. 3 (Fall, 2015): 28-46.
Rusert, Britt. "Disappointment in the Archives of Black Freedom." Social Text 33, no. 4 125 (2015): 19-33
- ^ a b Martin, Tony (2002). "The Banneker Literary Institute of Philadelphia: African American Intellectual Activism before the War of the Slaveholders' Rebellion". The Journal of African American History. 87: 303–322 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Winch, Julie (2000). The Elite of our People: Josephs Willson's Sketches of Black Upper-Class Life in Antebellum Philadephia. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press. p. 167.