Elizabeth Blackwell (3 February 1821 – 31 May 1910) was a British-born physician, notable as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, as well as the first woma...
I assure you I felt a little odd, sitting down before those degraded little beings, to teach them a religion which the owners professed to follow whilst violating its very first principles. Elizabeth Blackwell
I assure you I felt a little odd, sitting down before those degraded little beings, to teach them a religion which the owners professed to follow whilst violating its very first principles.
The sense of justice was continually outraged; and at the end of the first term of engagement I resigned the situation. Elizabeth Blackwell
The sense of justice was continually outraged; and at the end of the first term of engagement I resigned the situation.
The inhabitants lived in constant fear of an outbreak among the slaves. Women did not dare to walk in the pleasant woods and country around the village, for terror of runaway slaves. Elizabeth Blackwell
The inhabitants lived in constant fear of an outbreak among the slaves. Women did not dare to walk in the pleasant woods and country around the village, for terror of runaway slaves.
The people of Henderson were all very friendly to me personally… but the injustice of the state of society made a gradually deepening impression on my mind. Elizabeth Blackwell
The people of Henderson were all very friendly to me personally… but the injustice of the state of society made a gradually deepening impression on my mind.
I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity. Elizabeth Blackwell
I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.
The mother received me with good-nature, and ever since I’ve been here the whole family have treated me with kindness to the extent of their knowledge, one portion of which is never to leave me alone. Elizabeth Blackwell
The mother received me with good-nature, and ever since I’ve been here the whole family have treated me with kindness to the extent of their knowledge, one portion of which is never to leave me alone.