Black Suffragist Feminist Women 1900 Scotia Seminary 8x10 Female College Student

DETAILS: Original cabinet card photograph of three black suffragists attending Scotia Seminary, an African American female college in Concord, North Carolina. At the time, students of the college were commonly referred to as the "daughters of the emancipated" as they were the children of freed slave. They continued their battle for greater civil rights into the suffragist movement with several school graduates gaining prominence within the feminist movement of the prewar era. It was the first historically black female institution of higher education established after the American Civil War.

Historians consider it to be the first black institution built after the Civil War. For the first time, it gave black women an alternative to becoming domestic servants or field hands. Scotia Seminary offered its students grammar, science, and domestic arts.

In 1908 it had 19 teachers and 291 students. From its founding in 1867 to 1908 it had enrolled 2,900 students, with 604 having graduated from the grammar department and 109 from the normal department. The school was modeled after Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) and was referred to as "The Mount Holyoke of the South".

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Oxxbridge Galleries was founded in 1987 and specializes in vintage paper items with a large selection of historical and 19th Century tintypes, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, as well as other types of early photography.