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Ann Deborah Lynn Research Paper

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Ann Deborah Lynn knew she was born to be leader despite her circumstances as an African American in Lexington, Kentucky. Born October 3, 1810 to William Henry Lynn and Sarah Mae Lynn, her vision to be an inspiring Civil Rights Activist would be the biggest challenge of her life. Her father, William was a slave captured in Angola, Africa in broad daylight and her mother, Sarah was a daughter of slaves from Guinea. Free blacks in the South couldn’t express how they felt and wasn’t able to travel as freely as the free slaves in the Northern cities. The North also had more to offer because they were becoming more urban which meant better jobs, transportation and growing middle-class. Ann always knew she wanted to travel and speak to other slaves …show more content…

She cook for white and colored. Mammy was good.” Ann was sensitive and forgiving, she knew that slavery was wrong but she did not have anger against the whites; as uncanny as it may sound, Ann wanted to convince them someday that all people should get along despite one’s skin tone. As time passed on, Ann kept her journals of hardships and tried to persevere through her everyday life as a free slave in the South. By the time she reached thirty years old, she worked in the factory using the cotton gin. During this time period, the world as she knew it would change drastically, it was the Pre-Civil War period or commonly known as: The Antebellum Period. In 1843, Ann used the railroad system of transportation and relocated to Massachusetts to join the Northampton Association of Education. She wanted to gain insight of the Women’s right and strongly support the end of all violence (pacifism). This was short-lived due to the disbanded end of this community in 1846, Ann decided to live in a Utopian community known as “Brook Farm.” She was strongly committed to extend her courage to stop all slavery so she became an active member in the abolitionist movement as well as being a Woman’s Activist and Civil Rights

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