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as an artist artist. She was among the first black women to attend Oberlin
College, where a liberal precendence had already been seen [?], being the first American institution of higher learning to admit women on a nonsegregated basis. However, it was actually in the city of Boston that Miss Lewis realized the ladent [?] talent that she had for art and thus set forth to develop her interest by accepting advice from friends, one such person being the well-known aboloitionist William Lloyd Garrison. Her studies in sculpture were imaginative and as exacting as she exhibited the discipline that [Scribbled out] was necessary to convince her supporters of her serious dedication to [art scribbled out] and this excited their support in her efforts to further her [education, strike through] study as a sculptor living in Rome.
William Gerdts writing on the career of Edmonia Lewis in relation to that of nine other black artists of the Nineteenth Century said "Of all the artist of the movement in Italy, European or American, Ed [Education?] - Monia Lewis was the most exotic. She was part Negro, part American