Sarah Parker Remond | |
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Born | Salem, Massachusetts, United States | June 6, 1826
Died | December 13, 1894 | (aged 68)
Alma mater | Bedford College Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova |
Occupation(s) | Activist, physician |
Spouse | Lazzaro Pintor |
Parent(s) | John Remond (father) Nancy Lenox (mother) |
Relatives | Charles Lenox Remond (brother) Caroline Remond Putnam (sister) Cecilia Remond Putnam (sister) Marchita Remond (sister) |
Sarah Parker Remond (June 6, 1826 – December 13, 1894) was an American lecturer, activist and abolitionist campaigner.
Born a free woman in the state of Massachusetts, she became an international activist for human rights and women's suffrage. Remond made her first public speech against the institution of slavery when she was 16 years old, and delivered abolitionist speeches throughout the northeastern United States. One of her brothers, Charles Lenox Remond, became known as an orator and they occasionally toured together for their abolitionist lectures.
Eventually becoming an agent of the American Anti-Slavery Society, in 1858 Remond chose to travel to Britain to gather support for the growing abolitionist cause in the United States. While in London, Remond also studied at Bedford College, lecturing during term breaks. During the American Civil War, she appealed for support among the British public for the Union and their blockade of the Confederacy. After the conclusion of the war in favor of the Union, she appealed for funds to support the millions of the newly emancipated freedmen in the American South.
From England, Remond went to Italy in 1867 to pursue medical training in Florence, where she became a physician. She practiced medicine for nearly 20 years in Italy and never returned to the United States, dying in Rome at the age of 68.