Sarah Parker Remond - Boston, MA
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A monument honoring abolitionist Sarah Parker Remond is located on the hallway wall outside Doric Hall in the Massachusetts State House at 24 Beacon Street, Boston, MA.
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Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 08/25/2015
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The State House Women’s Leadership Project has commemorated Sarah Parker Remond with a monument in the Massachusetts State House. She is one of six women, so honored, that have contributed to the government of the Commonwealth. A life size relief sculpture of Sarah Parker Remond is presented within a circular opening near the bottom of a rectangular slab of green marble.
The top of the slab has the inscription:
MY STRONGEST DESIRE through life has been
to be educated. I found the most exquisite
pleasure in reading, and as we had no library,
I read every book which came my way,
and longed for more. Again and again
mother would endeavor to have us placed in
some private school, but being colored we
were refused.
"A Colored Lady Lecturer." 1861
Above her sculpture is inscribed:
I THOUGHT OF THE GREAT INJUSTICE
PRACTICED UPON ME, AND
LONGED FOR SOME POWER TO HELP ME
CRUSH THOSE WHO THUS ROBBED ME
OF MY PERSONAL RIGHTS.
{Sculpture}
SARAH PARKER REMOND
The lower side frame of the monument has the her date of birth and death: 1824-1894
Sarah Parker Remond was an African-American lecturer, abolitionist, and member of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Sarah Parker Remond delivered anti-slavery speeches throughout the northeast United States. After the Civil War began the Anti-Slavery Society sent her to England to secure support for the abolitionist movement in America, for support of the Union Army, and to support the Union blockade of the Confederacy.
Sarah Parker Remond moved to Italy in 1866 and became a physician. She married Lazzaro Pinto, a Sardinian, practiced medicine for nearly 20 years in Florence and is buried in Rome, Italy.
The Massachusetts State House is open to the public Monday through Friday from 10 am to 4 pm. All visitors must enter through the General Hooker entrance.