Boston Mutual Lyceum

Boston Mutual Lyceum was an African American lyceum organization[1] founded in 1833. It included women and had a female vice-president. Two of five managers were also women.[2] The Adelphic Union was an African American literary society in Boston at the same time.[3]

Officers were: Dudley Tidd, president; Joel W. Lewis, 1st vice-president; Sarah H. Annible, 2nd vice-president; Nath Cutler, secretary; and Thomas Dalton, treasurer. Managers were Joseph H. Gover, John B. Cutler, Henry Carroll, Lucy V. Lew, and Mary Williams. Josiah Holbrook helped organize the group.[1]

Tidd was a laborer[4] who became a property owner along with Dalton, who had been a bootblack.

The abolitionist newspaper The Liberator published by William Lloyd Garrison published a brief notice of the formation of the group listing its officers and managers.[5]

A Lew family history is known and she may have become Thomas Dalton's wife, known as Lucy Lew Dalton. Lucy Lew Dalton is part of the Boston Women's Heritage Trail.[6]

See also

References
  1. "The Abolitionist". Garrison and Knapp. December 5, 1833 – via Google Books.
  2. Yellin, Jean Fagan; Horne, John C. Van (May 31, 2018). "The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America". Cornell University Press – via Google Books.
  3. Horton, James Oliver; Horton, Lois E. (December 5, 1999). "Black Bostonians: family life and community struggle in the antebellum North". Holmes & Meier – via Google Books.
  4. Horton, James Oliver; Horton, Lois E. (December 5, 1999). "Black Bostonians: family life and community struggle in the antebellum North". Holmes & Meier – via Google Books.
  5. http://fair-use.org/the-liberator/1833/08/31/the-liberator-03-35.pdf
  6. "Charlestown". bwht.org.
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