Abby Hopper Gibbons
1800s American philanthropist
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Mary Ellen Pleasant
Mary Ellen Pleasant was perhaps the most powerful Black woman in Gold Rush-era San Francisco.
Kitty Payne
Catherine “Kitty” Payne was an enslaved woman in the U.S. in the 1800s
Clara Vaught
In December 1852, the Boston Vigilance Committee credited Vaught for boarding three freedom seekers at her home in Boston. It can be inferred that between 1812 and 1855, Vaught escaped enslavement and ultimately came to reside in Boston.
Oney Judge
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 Grinstead
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
Mary White Ovington (1865–1951), a social worker and freelance writer, was a principal NAACP founder and officer for almost forty years.
Adelia Field Johnston
American educator
Mehitable Sunderland
Mehitable Sunderland (1807-1901) is recognized as the first physician in Boston’s Hyde Park.
Nancy Gardner Prince
In 1853, Prince published A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince Written by Herself