Episodes

  • Nannie Helen Burroughs
    Jan 12 2022

    “She can not be put into a box.” 

    —Abena Ansah-Wright


    In this episode of Carved in Ebony, Jasmine Holmes and Abena Ansah-Wright talk about Nannie Helen Burroughs. Burroughs was a speaker, civil rights activist, and educator. She was an advocate for including women in more prominent roles in the church, and founded her own trade and liberal arts school for girls and women.


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         Jasmine’s website: https://jasminelholmes.com 


    Follow Abena Ansah-Wright

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    Find Jasmine’s book at https://carvedinebonybook.com 

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    25 mins
  • Lucy Craft Laney
    Jan 5 2022

    “Lucy Craft Laney is in the south, where racial violence is intensifying, the lines are hardening…and she is out here trying to create spaces for education for black children. That’s huge.” 

    —Abena Ansah-Wright


    In this episode of Carved in Ebony, Jasmine Holmes and Abena Ansah-Wright discuss Lucy Craft Laney, an educator born in Georgia in 1854. She was educated at an American Missionary Association school, and went on to start her own school for black children in her home state of Georgia, where she served as principal. 



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         Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jasminelholmes/ 

         Jasmine’s website: https://jasminelholmes.com 


    Follow Abena Ansah-Wright

         Twitter: https://twitter.com/APBAnsah 

         Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/abena.ansah 


    Find Jasmine’s book at https://carvedinebonybook.com 







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    14 mins
  • Maria Fearing
    Dec 29 2021

    “This woman was born with nothing, worked to have her own property, and then gave away everything.” 

    —Jasmine Holmes


    In this episode of Carved in Ebony, Jasmine Holmes and Abena Ansah-Wright tell the story of  Maria Fearing, a woman born into slavery in Alabama. After Fearing was freed, she learned to read and write, became a teacher, and bought her own home. In her fifties, Maria sold her house as a means to finance her missionary journey to the Congo, where she stayed for as long as she was able. She served as a Bible translator, opened a home for girls, and rescued many children from slavery. 



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         Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jasminelholmes/ 

         Jasmine’s website: https://jasminelholmes.com 


    Follow Abena Ansah-Wright

         Twitter: https://twitter.com/APBAnsah 

         Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/abena.ansah 


    Find Jasmine’s book at https://carvedinebonybook.com


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    20 mins
  • Sarah G. Stanley
    Dec 22 2021

    “She never took the path of least resistance.” 

    —Jasmine Holmes


    In this episode of Carved in Ebony, Jasmine Holmes and Abena Ansah-Wright highlight the life of Sarah G. Stanley, an author, abolitionist, and teacher who was born into a wealthy family in 1837. After attending Oberlin College, Stanley became a teacher. Later she joined the American Missionary Association and educated newly emancipated students in the south.


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         Jasmine’s website: https://jasminelholmes.com 


    Follow Abena Ansah-Wright

         Twitter: https://twitter.com/APBAnsah 

         Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/abena.ansah 


    Find Jasmine’s book at https://carvedinebonybook.com


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    16 mins
  • Amanda Berry Smith
    Dec 14 2021

    “This is a woman who loved God, spent her entire life devoted in service to him, and can teach us so much.” 

    —Jasmine Holmes


    In this episode of Carved in Ebony, Jasmine Holmes and Abena Ansah-Wright discuss Amanda Berry Smith, a preacher, missionary, writer, and minister born to enslaved parents in Maryland in 1837. After her father purchased freedom for himself and his family, Smith became deeply  involved in the Methodist church, and eventually served as a missionary in India, Africa, and Great Britain, among other places. Later in life, she opened an orphanage, which she funded with the proceeds from her autobiography. 


    Links:

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         Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jasminelholmes/ 

         Jasmine’s website: https://jasminelholmes.com 


    Follow Abena Ansah-Wright

         Twitter: https://twitter.com/APBAnsah 

         Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/abena.ansah 


    Find Jasmine’s book at https://carvedinebonybook.com 


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    23 mins
  • Charlotte Forten Grimké
    Dec 8 2021

    “In her diary, Charlotte was fierce.’” 

    —Jasmine Holmes


    In this episode of Carved in Ebony, Jasmine Holmes and Abena Ansah-Wright discuss Charlotte Forten Grimké, an educator, poet, essayist, and anti-slavery activist. Born into an active abolitionist family in Philadelphia, Grimké became a teacher, and was later asked to teach newly emancipated people on the Sea Islands in North Carolina. While teaching there, Grimké collected folklore and wrote about the customs on the island, and published essays about her time on the island.


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    Follow Abena Boakyewa-Ansah 

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    Find Jasmine’s book at https://carvedinebonybook.com

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    25 mins
  • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
    Dec 2 2021

    “The word that comes to mind when I think of her is ‘poise.’” —Jasmine Holmes


    In this episode of Carved in Ebony, Jasmine Holmes and Abena Ansah-Wright talk about how Frances Ellen Watkins Harper defied societal expectations in order to make an impact on her world. Harper was a teacher, a speaker, a poet, an abolitionist, and equal rights advocate. She became the first woman to teach at Union Seminary, as well as the first African American woman to publish a short story.


    Follow Jasmine Holmes

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         Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jasminelholmes/ 

         Jasmine’s website: https://jasminelholmes.com 


    Follow Abena Boakyewa-Ansah 

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         Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/abena.ansah 


    Find Jasmine’s book at https://carvedinebonybook.com

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    13 mins
  • Sarah Mapps Douglass
    Nov 24 2021

    Sarah Mapps Douglass is captivating to me because she is so emblematic of black abolitionism and how beautiful and rich a tradition it was.” 

    —Abena Ansah-Wright


    In the latest episode of Carved in Ebony, Jasmine Holmes and Abena Ansah-Wright talk about Sarah Mapps Douglass. Born in 1806 in Philadelphia, Douglass went on to have a long career as an abolitionist, lecturer, educator, and writer. Douglass was a true renaissance woman, and during her life time, she spoke out against the segregation within her own Quaker church tradition, attended medical school, started a literary society, and began her own school for black women.


    Follow Jasmine Holmes

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         Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jasmine.baucham 

         Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jasminelholmes/ 

         Jasmine’s website: https://jasminelholmes.com 


    Follow Abena Boakyewa-Ansah 

         Twitter: https://twitter.com/APBAnsah 

         Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/abena.ansah 


    Find Jasmine’s book at https://carvedinebonybook.com

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    13 mins