Olive Gilbert

Name

Olive Gilbert

First Name

Olive

Last Name

Gilbert

Born

6 August 1801

Died

5 January 1884

Parents

Molly "Mary" Scarborough - mother (1768-1839)
Joseph Gilbert - father - (1755-1801)
Samuel Scarborough - step-father (1773-1838)

Note

Amanuensis to first edition of Sojourner Truth's Narrative, late 1840s (published in 1850).
Quote from Journal of Cyrus Moses Burleigh, held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, page 8, from August 1844
Perrin Scarborough was her half-brother (from her mother's second marriage)

Sojourner Truth

Cyrus Moses Burleigh

Perrin Scarborough

Related Places

Brooklyn, Connecticut
visited Vermont and Canada according to CMB Journal

Massachusetts - Northampton and western

Connecticut - Eastern

Associated Causes

Charter member of the Brooklyn Female Anti-Slavery Society

Brooklyn Female Anti-Slavery Society

Abolition

Utopianism

Destruction of the Canterbury Female Academy