Brown, Antoinette Louisa

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Antoinette Louisa Brown
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Female
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    7
    Family
    Joseph Brown (father), Abby Morse (mother), Samuel Charles Blackwell (husband, 1856)
    Education
    Other
    Other Education
    Oberlin College, Oberlin Seminary
    Occupation
    Clergy
    Journalist
    Writer or Artist
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder
    Church or Religious Denomination
    Other
    Other Religion
    Congregationalist
    Political Parties
    Republican
    Other Affiliations
    Abolitionists (Anti-Slavery Society)
    Temperance (Prohibition)
    Women’s Rights

    Antoinette Brown (American National Biography)

    Scholarship
    Blackwell was in the vanguard of antebellum reform, braving opposition to her ministerial career and her antislavery principles and persisting to build on the successes of her causes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Synthesizing the evangelical orthodoxies of her childhood, the transcendental and romantic concern for nature, and the evolutionary science popularized by Darwin and Spencer, she built philosophical foundations on which she argued for the equality of the sexes.
    Carol Lasser, "Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00064.html.
    Chicago Style Entry Link
    Cazden, Elizabeth. Antoinette Brown Blackwell: A Biography. Old Westbury, NY: The Feminist Press, 1983. view record
    How to Cite This Page: "Brown, Antoinette Louisa," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/15166.