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THE FIGHT FOR BLACK MOBILITY: TRAVELING TO MID-CENTURY CONVENTIONS<\/h3>\n

CHARLOTTE AUGUSTA BURROUGHS RAY<\/h1>\n

[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Exhibit Content” _builder_version=”3.0.106″]Charlotte Augusta Burroughs Ray was from Savannah, Georgia[note]”MARRIAGES.” The Liberator<\/em> [Boston] 17 Jan. 1840: n. pag. Print.[\/note] and was the second wife of Rev. Charles B. Ray. Records show that Charlotte and Charles married in 1840 and had seven children.[note]Barnes, L. Diane. “Ray, Charles B.” Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619\u20131895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass<\/em>. Ed. Paul Finkelman. N.p.: Oxford UP, 2012. N. pag. Print.[\/note] In 1872, her daughter Charlotte became the first female lawyer in the United States. Florence Ray, another daughter of Charles and Charlotte, also became a lawyer.[note]Christian, Charles Melvin, and Sari J. Bennett. Black Saga: The African American Experience : A Chronology<\/em>. (New York: Houghton, 1999). Print.[\/note] Another one of Charlotte’s daughters, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, was a schoolteacher and an accomplished poet. Her most notable poem \u201cLincoln\u201d received public recognition at the opening of the Freedman\u2019s Monument in Washington D.C. in 1876.[note]Henrietta Ray, A Fine Black Poet and Biographer<\/em>. African American Registry, n.d. Web. 11 Mar. 2013. Link<\/a>[\/note]<\/p>\n

So while little else is known about Charlotte A. B. Ray, it is apparent that she valued her children’s education. Charlotte’s marriage to Charles was announced in The Liberator<\/em> on January 17, 1840, where comical remarks were made regarding Ray wedding a Southern Woman, \u201cOur esteemed brother Ray \u2018goes with the South,\u2019 so far as to take a Georgia lady for his wife, but we are positively assured that she has no cotton bales and that her influence will not have the least tendency to draw away her husband from his abolition integrity.\u201d[note]”MARRIAGES.” The Liberator<\/em> [Boston] 17 Jan. 1840: n. pag. Print.[\/note]
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Elizabeth Sobel, Black Literary History, Taught by Professor Pier Gabrielle Foreman, University of Delaware Spring 2013. <\/p>\n

Edited by Gwendolyn Meredith, University of Delaware.<\/p>\n

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