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Oney Judge was the enslaved personal attendant of Martha Custis Washington when she ran away from the President’s House in Philadelphia in 1796.

Elizabeth Key was a principal in one of the important early court cases that shaped the evolving law of slavery in seventeenth-century Virginia.

Mary White Ovington (1865–1951), a social worker and freelance writer, was a principal NAACP founder and officer for almost forty years.

American educator

Mehitable Sunderland (1807-1901) is recognized as the first physician in Boston’s Hyde Park.

In 1853, Prince published A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince Written by Herself

Gibbs was an abolitionist who helped escaped slaves. During the Civil War, she became the first female nurse for the Union.

American abolitionist

A founder of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society

American activist who worked tirelessly for women’s rights, especially suffrage and the abolition of slavery.