Sarah Blake Shaw (née Sturgis; August 31, 1815 – December 31, 1902) was an American abolitionist, women's rights supporter, anti-imperialist and philanthropist.

[2] In 1838, they joined the American Anti-Slavery Society and would later become founding members of the Unitarian Church in Staten Island, New York.

Of her personality and intellect, author William Rhinelander Stewart wrote, "Whatever things were best in art, literature, or music instantly appealed to her, and were loved from the time she first saw or heard them; and with the aid of a retentive memory, she was able even towards the close of a life prolonged to her eighty-seventh year to recite whole pages of Shakespeare and Milton, her favorite poets.

"[4] And from the pen of Century Magazine editor Richard Watson Gilder, a poem[5] — Mother of heroes, she—of them who gave Their lives to lift the lowly, free the slave.

Her, through long years, two master passions bound: Love of our free land; and of all sweet sound.