Elizabeth Blackwell

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young men teased her in her class, but she learned to deal with it.

 

For a long time the Blackwell's ran a sugar business. It was very successful, until one day the business started to loose money and they had to move to America; and there she would be able to go to a better school. So, on August 1832 they left to America on a ship. The trip was very hard for them it was like a nightmare. More than 200 people were crowded aboard the ship, and most of them brought cattle, rat-infested blackness below the deck of the ship. Even first-class passengers like the Blackwell's were miserable. There were outbreaks of cholera that caused unsanitary living conditions, and claimed many people's lives aboard the ship. This made Elizabeth even madder and more eager to become a doctor. She and her family were very lucky to survive this trip.


 

In October 1832, the Blackwells settled in a house in New York. They became involved in anti-slavery activities and held meetings in their ...

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