Lucy Stanton (abolitionist)
Lucy Stanton was an American abolitionist and feminist figure, notable for being the first African American to complete a fouryear course of a study at a college or university. She completed a Ladies Literary Course from Oberlin College in 1850.
Lucy Stanton was born free, the only child of Margaret and Samuel Stanton. When her biological father Samuel, a barber, died when she was onlymonths old, Stantons mother married John Brown, an abolitionist famous around Cleveland, Ohio for his participation in the Underground Railroad. Stanton is noted as saying that John Brown would harbor as many asrunaway slaves in their house at any given time.
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