Kitty Foster
Kitty Foster was a free African American woman who owned property just south of the University of Virginia, the site of which has been memorialized by the school.
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Lucy Burwell
Lucy Burwell is best known for rejecting the fervent and sometimes menacing courtship of Governor Sir Francis Nicholson, contributing to a petition against Nicholson and Queen Anne ultimately removing him from office.
Sally Hemings
Sally Hemings was an enslaved house servant owned by Thomas Jefferson, who is believed to have fathered at least six of Hemings’s children.
Sally Cottrell Cole
Sally Cottrell was an enslaved maid and seamstress in 1800s Virginia.
Ann Banks Davis
Ann Banks Davis was an enslaved woman who lived in Virginia in the 1800s
Angela
Angela was an enslaved woman and among the first Africans to arrive in the Virginia colony in 1619.
Élisabeth of France
Often simply called the Princess, or Madame Élisabeth, she was the youngest sibling of King Louis XVI. A devout Catholic, she pushed aside her desire to join the convent in order to serve at her brother’s side during his reign.
Eulalia Callis
Despite her prominent position, she made private matters public in 1785 by openly accusing her husband, the Alta California governor, of infidelity and refusing to sleep with him; in addition, she insisted on returning to Mexico City.
Zipporah Potter Atkins
The first African American woman to purchase a home in Boston
Dorcas
Dorcas was an enslaved woman thought to be the first named African to settle in the New England area and also the first to be accepted as a member of a local Puritan church.