Now to Ashes is a play following four exceptional abolitionist women. It reflects on an extremely polarized time in American history and pulls parallels from the past to the present to provide guidance for confronting our current conflicted times. Each woman’s story gives the audience a varying perspective on how to respond to injustice, regardless of their own time period. I had the honor of playing Sarah Mapps Douglass, one of the black leaders of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society.