{"id":4328,"date":"2025-05-12T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/women-economic-power\/?page_id=4328"},"modified":"2026-07-23T16:22:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:22:47","slug":"boarding-houses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/women-economic-power\/boarding-houses\/","title":{"rendered":"Boarding Houses: Sites of Black Intellectual Production"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Explore brief biographies of the people who ran boarding houses, and of the women who gained economic independence through their sartorial and culinary skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-09e886c0 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/women-economic-power\/boarding-houses\/serena-peter-gardiner\/\">Serena and Peter Gardiner<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"308\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/women-economic-power\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/2_1_img_1.png\" alt=\"Listing in a newspaper, from 1835.\" class=\"wp-image-1798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/women-economic-power\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/2_1_img_1.png 308w, https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/women-economic-power\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/2_1_img_1-300x246.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/women-economic-power\/boarding-houses\/david-eliza-johnson\/\">Eliza and David Johnson<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"439\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/women-economic-power\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/10\/boarding-and-loging-bottom.png\" alt=\"print newspaper ad\" class=\"wp-image-2690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/women-economic-power\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/10\/boarding-and-loging-bottom.png 439w, https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/women-economic-power\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/10\/boarding-and-loging-bottom-300x231.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/women-economic-power\/boarding-houses\/amelia-shad\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"4443\">Amelia Shad<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"335\" height=\"311\" src=\"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/women-economic-power\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/2_3_img.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/women-economic-power\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/2_3_img.png 335w, https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/women-economic-power\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/2_3_img-300x279.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/women-economic-power\/boarding-houses\/rebecca-charles-short\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/women-economic-power\/boarding-houses\/rebecca-charles-short\/\">Rebecca and Charles Short<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"444\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/women-economic-power\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/2_4_img.png\" alt=\"newspaperclipping\" class=\"wp-image-1771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/women-economic-power\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/04\/2_4_img.png 444w, 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