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Sarah L. Forten

“We are thy sisters. ... / Our skins may differ, but from thee we claim / A sister's privilege and a sister's name.”
- Sarah L. Forten,
- 1837, in Dorothy Sterling, ed., We Are Your Sisters (1984)

Sarah L. Forten, U.S. poet, abolitionist

(1814 - 1883)

Full name: Sarah Louise Forten Purvis.