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Amy was active in the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society which focused on providing access to opportunities for education, moral reform, and vocational training for the free black community living in Philadelphia. In 1841 Amy and Joseph Cassey along with Robert Douglass, Sr., Jacob White, Sr., John Bowers, Robert Purvis, Sarah Douglass, Hetty Burr, Grace Douglass, Harriet Purvis, and Amelia Bogle founded the Gilbert Lyceum. The Gilbert Lyceum was the first co-ed literary society for African American Philadelphians and included literary and scientific interests.<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><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Cobb|first=Jasmine|date=Fall 2015|title="Forget Me Not": Free Black Women and Sentimentality|url=https://muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/article/593051|journal=MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.|volume=40|pages=27-42|via=Project Muse}}</ref> |
Amy was active in the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society which focused on providing access to opportunities for education, moral reform, and vocational training for the free black community living in Philadelphia. In 1841 Amy and Joseph Cassey along with Robert Douglass, Sr., Jacob White, Sr., John Bowers, Robert Purvis, Sarah Douglass, Hetty Burr, Grace Douglass, Harriet Purvis, and Amelia Bogle founded the Gilbert Lyceum. The Gilbert Lyceum was the first co-ed literary society for African American Philadelphians and included literary and scientific interests.<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><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Cobb|first=Jasmine|date=Fall 2015|title="Forget Me Not": Free Black Women and Sentimentality|url=https://muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/article/593051|journal=MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.|volume=40|pages=27-42|via=Project Muse}}</ref> |
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=== Friendship Albums === |
=== Friendship Albums === |
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From 1833 to 1856 Mary Wood Forten, Martina Dickerson, Mary Anne Dickerson, and Amy Cassey |
From 1833 to 1856 Mary Wood Forten, Martina Dickerson, Mary Anne Dickerson, and Amy Cassey kept friendship albums. These four albums re the current four African American women's albums that are still Intact today. Within the albums, women w(for the most part, but there are entries from men) rote poetry, essays, and painted metaphorical nature scenes. The albums circulated within a community of free people and abolitionists from Boston to Baltimore. Amy's friendship album features entries from prominent abolitionists who contributed to the album while staying at the [[Cassey House|Cassey house]]. in Philadelphia The friendship albums shared entries focused on fighting oppression based on race and gender. Other abolitionists and friends who lived close by borrowed and exchanged the albums be returned when they were done with their contributions The albums of Martina and Mary Dickerson and Amy Cassey re kept at the [https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/islandora%3Aroot?f%5B0%5D=lcp_mods_facet_creator_or_contributor_name_ms%3A%22Cassey%2C%5C%20Amy%5C%20Matilda%2C%5C%201809%5C-1856.%22 Library Company of Philadelphia.] While the album of Mary Wood Forten is currently being held at Howard University.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/28864781/Activism_behind_the_Veil_of_Sentimentality_The_Amy_Matilda_Cassey_Friendship_Album|title=Activism behind the Veil of Sentimentality: The Amy Matilda Cassey Friendship Album|last=Kammerer|first=Elise|date=2018|website=Academia|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=December 6 2018}}</ref> |
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== Later Life == |
== Later Life == |
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[https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/islandora%3Aroot Joseph Cassey] passed in 1848, Amy then married Charles Lenox Remond in 1850. Amy and Charles moved to Salem, Massachusetts where she continued to be active in civil rights and abolition.<ref name=":1">{{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> Amy died on the 15th of August |
[https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/islandora%3Aroot Joseph Cassey] passed in 1848, Amy then married Charles Lenox Remond in 1850. Amy and Charles moved to Salem, Massachusetts where she continued to be active in civil rights and abolition.<ref name=":1">{{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> a=Amy died on the 15th of August 185in Salem, Massachusetts.<ref name=":1" /> |
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== See Also == |
== See Also == |
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Revision as of 03:26, 7 December 2018
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 who founded the Gilbert Lyceum, Philadelphia's first co-ed literary society. The society had more than forty registered members by the end of the first year.[1][2][3]
Early Life
Amy was born into a prominent African American family, in New York City, 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. Amy was involved in black newspapers and organizations in her early teens. She attended the African Free School for her education in New York City. In 1826 when Amy was seventeen, she met and married an activist and businessman from Philadelphia named Joseph Cassey, afterwards, she moved with him to Philadelphia.[4]
Activism
Amy was active in the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society which focused on providing access to opportunities for education, moral reform, and vocational training for the free black community living in Philadelphia. In 1841 Amy and Joseph Cassey along with Robert Douglass, Sr., Jacob White, Sr., John Bowers, Robert Purvis, Sarah Douglass, Hetty Burr, Grace Douglass, Harriet Purvis, and Amelia Bogle founded the Gilbert Lyceum. The Gilbert Lyceum was the first co-ed literary society for African American Philadelphians and included literary and scientific interests.[2][1]
Friendship Albums
From 1833 to 1856 Mary Wood Forten, Martina Dickerson, Mary Anne Dickerson, and Amy Cassey kept friendship albums. These four albums re the current four African American women's albums that are still Intact today. Within the albums, women w(for the most part, but there are entries from men) rote poetry, essays, and painted metaphorical nature scenes. The albums circulated within a community of free people and abolitionists from Boston to Baltimore. Amy's friendship album features entries from prominent abolitionists who contributed to the album while staying at the Cassey house. in Philadelphia The friendship albums shared entries focused on fighting oppression based on race and gender. Other abolitionists and friends who lived close by borrowed and exchanged the albums be returned when they were done with their contributions The albums of Martina and Mary Dickerson and Amy Cassey re kept at the Library Company of Philadelphia. While the album of Mary Wood Forten is currently being held at Howard University.[5]
Later Life
Joseph Cassey passed in 1848, Amy then married Charles Lenox Remond in 1850. Amy and Charles moved to Salem, Massachusetts where she continued to be active in civil rights and abolition.[6] a=Amy died on the 15th of August 185in Salem, Massachusetts.[6]
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
- ^ a b Cobb, Jasmine (Fall 2015). ""Forget Me Not": Free Black Women and Sentimentality". MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. 40: 27–42 – via Project Muse.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Dunbar, Erica (2008). A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City. London: Yale University Press. p. 102.
- ^ Rusert, Britt (December 2015). "Disappointment in the Archives of Black Freedom". Social Text. 33: 19–33 – via Academia.
- ^ Kammerer, Elise (2018). "Activism behind the Veil of Sentimentality: The Amy Matilda Cassey Friendship Album". Academia. Retrieved December 6 2018.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=(help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ a b 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.