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Sarah Blake Shaw (née Sturgis; August 31, 1815 – December 31, 1902) was an American abolitionist, women's rights supporter, anti-imperialist and philanthropist.
Sarah Blake Sturgis Shaw was the mother of Robert Gould Shaw. She was a very formidable woman for her time.
Elizabeth Gaskell's acquaintance with the family was through Robert's mother, Sarah Blake Shaw, née Sturgis (1815-1902), whom she met in Paris in 1855, as described in the article. She was a staunch abolitionist, her resolve spilling into fanaticism when it came to directing Robert's career.
When Sarah Blake Sturgis was born on 4 December 1812, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Nathanial Russell Sturgis, was 33 and her mother, Susanna Parkman, was 32. She married Francis George Shaw on 9 May 1835, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.
Shaw, Sarah Blake Sturgis, 1815-1902. Sarah Shaw was the wife of Francis George Shaw, a prominent philanthropist and reformer of Boston and West Roxbury, Mass., and Staten Island, N.Y. The Shaws were the parents of Robert Gould Shaw, Civil War soldier and colonel of the first black regiment to serve with the Union Army.
He then served, and may briefly have lived, in the home of Francis and Sarah Blake Sturgis Shaw on Bowdoin Street, on the east edge of the African American West End. He met Charles Sumner, then a young attorney, while working for the Shaws, and over time the two became friends.
When Francis George Shaw was born on 23 October 1809, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Hon. Robert Gould Shaw Sr., was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth Willard Parkman, was 24. He married Sarah Blake Sturgis on 9 May 1835, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.
