Colored Female Religious and Moral Society explained
The Colored Female Religious and Moral Society was an African American women's club organized in 1818 in Salem, Massachusetts.[1] The group was started by forty women and they created their own constitution.[2] The group's constitution was published in the Liberator, an abolitionist paper.[3] The members promised that they would "be charitably watchful over each other."[4] Members also were required to take an oath of secrecy.[5] The organization was religious in nature, but they also worked to get sickness and death benefits for others.[6] In 1833, after membership had dwindled, the society was again revived.[7] Many of the members were "Christian propertied elite."
Notes and References
- Scott. Anne Firor. 1990-01-01. Most Invisible of All: Black Women's Voluntary Associations. 2210662. The Journal of Southern History. 56. 1. 6. 10.2307/2210662.
- Book: Sterling, Dorothy. We are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century. W. W. Norton & Company. 1997. 9780393316292. Revised. 108.
- Book: Sinha, Manisha. The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition. Yale University Press. 2016. 9780300182088. 269.
- Book: Shaw, Stephanie J.. https://books.google.com/books?id=d9lhBw8t410C&q=%22Colored+Female+Religious+and+Moral+Society%22&pg=PA62. The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History. Mariner Books. 1999. 9780618001828. Mankiller. Wilma P.. Reprint. 62. Black Clubwomen's Movement. Mink. Gwendolyn. Navarro. Marysa. Smith. Barbara. Steinem. Gloria.
- Book: Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England. Adams. Catherine. Pleck. Elizabeth H.. Oxford University Press. 2010. 9780199779833.
- Book: Religion in America. Corrigan. John. Hudson. Winthrop. Routledge. 2016. 9781317344605. 8th. 149.
- News: Colored Female Society in Salem. 16 February 1833. The Liberator. 8 February 2017. The Liberator Files.