Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Douglass, Margaret Crittenden

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557039Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography — Douglass, Margaret Crittenden

DOUGLASS, Margaret Crittenden, educator, b. in Washington, D. C. She removed at an early age to Charleston, S. C., where she married, and in 1845 to Norfolk. Va. She opened a school for the instruction of colored children, but it was broken up by the authorities in 1853, and she herself was imprisoned for a month in the common jail. She published a “Personal Narrative,” relating her experiences (Boston, 1854).