Ann Randolph Meade Page

The painting was determined to have been painted by James Toole by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts of Richmond. The image was used on the cover of the book written by her son-in-law Charles W. Andrews entitled Memoir of Mrs. Anne R. Page that was published in 1844.[1]

Ann Randolph Meade Page[a] (December 3, 1781 – March 28, 1838) was an American Episcopal slavery reformer. She was raised in her birth family with slaves and her husband was among the largest slaveholders in Frederick County, Virginia. She did not believe in slavery, and while she was unable to free slaves, she focused on improving their conditions by teaching them to read and write, Christianity, a wide range of domestic skills and trades. After the founding of the American Colonization Society and, after the death of her husband, she emancipated enslaved people and prepared them to leave the United States for the colony of Liberia in West Africa, where they and their family members would live free.

  1. ^ "Mrs. Page (Anne Randolph Meade)". Frick Art Reference Library. Retrieved March 2, 2021.


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