Sara G. Stanley
Sara Griffith Stanley Woodward (1837 – 1918) was an
African American abolitionist,
missionary teacher, and published author. Sara, sometimes listed as "Sarah", came from a biracial family, of which both black and white sides owned
slaves. Despite this fact, she spent most of her working life promoting freedom and
civil rights for African Americans. Her family's affluence enabled her to obtain a diploma in "Ladies Courses" from
Oberlin College, the first college in the United States to admit African Americans beginning in 1835. She wrote and published several abolitionist works in journal magazines, but her most famous writing was an address on behalf of the Delaware Ladies' Antislavery Society given at the State Convention of Colored Men during the
1856 election year. After the
American Civil War, she spent several years working as a teacher for the
American Missionary Association, working in the North and in the South educating African American children.
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