Elizabeth Carrington’s association used a charter and a fair

Past

Its educational charity also had a racial boundary.

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The recorded life

Elizabeth Ambler Brent Carrington helped establish Richmond’s Female Humane Association, according to the Library of Virginia. The institution’s history involved practical organizational tools: a constitution, bylaws and a successful petition for incorporation.

Carrington served as secretary for decades, making administration part of the record of charitable work.

Work beyond one role

The association opened an orphanage in 1813 and began an annual fundraising fair in 1828. Its assistance was racially restricted: the biography describes care and education for destitute white girls.

That boundary matters when interpreting whom the institution served. Carrington’s story documents women building an organization in public life, alongside the exclusions within that work.

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