THE MIDNIGHT RIDE OF JANE BLACK THOMAS
Schedule
Sun Sep 28 2025 at 03:00 pm to 05:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Piedmont Community Building, 3 Main St., Piedmont,SC | Piedmont, SC
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Join us for a an exciting program by Mrs. Sheila Ingle as she presents the story of Revolutionary War heroine Jane Black Thomas who traveled 60 miles on horseback in the dead of night through forests and rivers in 1780 to inform the patriots of an impending attack by British forces. Revolutionary "Feminist" Jane Black Thomas (1720-1811)Although the word "feminist" hadn't been created in the 1700s, Jane Black Thomas could be called South Carolina's first feminist. Had the word existed, she never would have approved of such a radical term for herself, given her conservative, strict Presbyterian upbringing and her standing as a bedrock pillar of the Fairforest Presbyterian Church. She would have been pleased, however, to discover herself described as a "sincere and spirited whig"—a Patriot—who fought for independence of the American colonies.*
Mrs. Ingle is an award winning author of several fictionalized biographies of Revolutionary War era women, including Kate Barry, Martha Bratton, Elizabeth Hutchinson and Eliza Pinckney. For over thirty years she taught secondary English, writing and drama classes in Spartanburg County Schools. She also worked as an adjunct instructor at University of South Carolina Upstate where she taught freshman composition and literature, language arts for the elementary teacher, and world literature. The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution presented Sheila with the Historic Preservation Award for “preserving the history of a South Carolina Heroine, Kate Barry, with her children’s book for all ages.” She is a member of the NSDAR, Daughters of the American Colonists, Colonial Dames of the 17th Century, Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, and the Magna Carta Dames and Barons.
Admission $5.00.
* https://www.sciway3.net/clark/revolutionarywar/JaneBlackThomas.htm
https://southcarolina250.com/wp-content/uploads/Jane-Black-Thomas-White-Paper-FINAL.pdf
Sources: "Jane Thomas: Heroine or Feminist?" by Ilene J. Cornwell, Greenville Magazine, April 1986; obituary of Jane Black Thomas, Carolina Gazette, Charleston, S. C., May 25, 1811; Women of the American Revolution, Vol. I (1848), by Elizabeth F. Ellett; Some Heroes of the American Revolution (1924), by James D. Bailey; History of Spartanburg County, South Carolina (1900), by Dr. John B. O. Landrum; History of the Presbyterian Church of South Carolina, Vol. I, (1870), by Reverend George Howe; King's Mountain and Its Heroes (1881), by Lyman C. Draper; and The Revolution Remembered: Eyewitness Accounts of the War for Independence (1980), edited by John C. Dann.
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