page_title: Sara G. Stanley
section_title: Late life and death
hierarchical_section_title: Sara G. Stanley / Late life and death
caption_attribution_description: English: Title: Sewing class at Haines Normal and Industrial Institute, Augusta, Georgia Abstract: African American students sewing in a classroom. Physical description: 1 photographic print. Notes: Exhibited: Paris Exposition of 1900 (Exposition universelle internationale de 1900), images collected by W.E.B. Du Bois and Thomas J. Calloway for the "American Negro Exhibit".; No. 14.; Title from item.
context_page_description: Sara Griffith Stanley Woodward 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 to further the cause of freedom and civil rights for African Americans. Her family's wealth and affluence enabled her to obtain a diploma in "Ladies Courses" from Oberlin College, one of the first colleges in the United States to admit African Americans beginning in 1837. 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 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.
context_section_description: After her husband's death, Stanley moved to Philadelphia, where she continued to receive her husband's military pension of $8 a month and worked as an engraver to supplement her income.
  In 1894, she briefly taught with notable abolitionist and educator Lucy Craft Laney at a small school for black women in Augusta, Georgia. At the time, the school was called "The Haines Normal and Industrial Institute", but in 1949 it was renamed "The Lucy Craft Laney Comprehensive High School".
  Little is known about her later life, but as part of the 1910 Census, Sara was again living in Cumberland County in New Jersey. It lists that she had 3 children, but 0 living. Sara Griffith Stanley Woodward died in 1918 at the age of 82. Her resting place is unknown.
caption: Sewing class at The Haines Normal and Industrial Institute, Augusta, GA, circa 1900.
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