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Together with her husband, Jones assisted hundreds of enslaved people fleeing north to Canada at a time when such actions were illegal, standing guard at the door during meetings of abolitionists. Writing in 1905, their daughter Lavinia Jones Lee recalled her mother personally loading fugitives onto
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The couple arrived in the city with only $ 3.50 (equivalent to $ 110 in 2023), pawning a watch to afford rent and the purchase of two stoves. A black grocer, O. G. Hanson, gave the Joneses $ 2 in credit (equivalent to $ 70 in 2023). John Jones's tailoring business succeeded and by 1850,
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on May 27, 1879, Jones became independently wealthy. Her husband's estate was valued at over $ 70,000 (equivalent to approximately $ 2.3 million in 2023); he had been one of the city's richest men. John's tailoring business was taken over by
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family; her parents were Elijah and Diza Richardson. Her father was a blacksmith, and her mother was a homemaker. Richardson was one of the middle children among nine born to the Richardsons between 1810 and 1845. In their 1945 book
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they were able to afford their own home. Although both were illiterate when they arrived in the city, they quickly taught themselves to read and write, viewing it as key to empowermentβ€”John wrote that "reading makes a free man".
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watched, kept away by a restless anti-slavery crowd. Jones kept track of those she had assisted, writing letters to many former fugitives and forming a network of aid centered on her and John.
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The Joneses became members of a small community of African Americans in Chicago, comprising 140 people at the time of their arrival. Along with three other women, Jones became a leader in the
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had not pushed for suffrage, and saying that "her idea of woman suffrage" was that "a woman should do all she could do". Once she decided to support the cause of women's voting, Jones hosted
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reported that, "loved and admired by everyone," Jones had "reached the ripe age of 89 years with the full possession of all her faculties." She is buried alongside her husband at Chicago's
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Alexander, William H.; Newby-Alexander, Cassandra; Ford, Charles Howard (2009). "Henry O. Wagoner, Civil Rights, and Black Economic Opportunity in Frontier Chicago and Denver, 1846–1887".
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destroyed both the Jones family's home and John's four-story tailoring business, together valued at $ 85,000 (equivalent to $ 2.2 million in 2023). The family built a new house near
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in March 1845, eight years after the city's incorporation. Committed abolitionists, they were drawn by Chicago's large anti-slavery movement. On the journey, they were suspected of being
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Literary Club, a prominent forum for black activism and feminism in Chicago. She mentored a new generation of leaders among black women, including Barrier Williams, Wells, and
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in Chicago. Her financial support enabled the founding of the Wheatley Home for Girls, which supported newly arrived migrants from rural areas, in 1908.
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six months later. The Joneses were not militant, despite their anti-slavery views, and did not support Brown's plan for a violent slave uprising.
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Moving to 29th Street, Jones's stately new home reflected her "economic status and social prominence" in the city, according to the historian
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reporter writing an 1888 story on "Cultured Negro Ladies" that "we want more justice to women and more virtue among men". Active in the
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While John's tailoring business prospered, Jones managed their home as a center of black activism, organizing resistance to the
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Jones, described by historian Richard Junger as a woman of strong "convictions and abilities", continued to advocate for
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described Richardson as a light-skinned woman "whose queenly beauty became a legend in later years."
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Jones was not quick to become a suffragist, arguing that prominent African-American women such as
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Reed, Christopher R. (2001). "African American Life in Antebellum Chicago, 1833–1860".
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Jones dedicated her fortune to philanthropy and activism. She contributed significantly to
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Smith, Jessie Carney; Phelps, Shirelle, eds. (2003). "Jones, Mary Jane Richardson".
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as a non-segregated institution, she made a substantial philanthropic contribution.
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in Chicago to give a lecture. Jones wrote to warn him that the audience was to be
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In the 1830s, Richardson moved with her family to the Mississippi River port of
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Voices from within the veil: African Americans and the experience of democracy
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and made their family home Chicago's second stop on the Underground Railroad.
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Mary Jane Richardson Jones with her husband John shortly after their marriage
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Smith, Jessie Carney; Jackson, Millicent Lownes; Winn, Lynda T. (2006).
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and detained, but were freed on the appeal of their stagecoach driver.
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Jones died on December 26, 1909, according to Junger. At her death,
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and mentored a new generation of younger black leaders, such as
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to free African-American parents, Jones and her family moved to
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After her husband's death in 1879, Jones continued to support
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Bontemps, Arna; Conroy, Jack (1945). "John Brown's Friend".
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Jones with her granddaughter, Theodora Lee Purnell, in 1883
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American abolitionist, suffragist, and activist (1819–1909)
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Black writing from Chicago : in the world, not of it?
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Another source gives her date of death as January 2, 1910.
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One source alternately gives her mother's name as Diaz.
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era, helping hundreds of fugitive slaves flee slavery.
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Portrait of Mary Richardson Jones by Aaron E. Darling, circa 1865
Memphis, Tennessee
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Abolitionism
woman's club movement
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Tennessee
Illinois
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African-American
history of Chicago
Jones household
Underground Railroad
pre-Civil War
African-American civil rights
advancement
suffragist
women's club movement
Fannie Barrier Williams
Ida B. Wells
Memphis, Tennessee
free black
Arna Bontemps
Jack Conroy
Alton, Illinois
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
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