Sally Cottrell Cole
Sally Cottrell was an enslaved maid and seamstress in 1800s Virginia.
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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.
Zipporah
While residing at the Three Cranes Tavern from 1757 to 1775, Zipporah an enslaved Indigenous woman, would have cooked, cleaned and served the patrons at the Tavern.
Apolinaria Lorenzana
One of very few women in California to receive a land grant in her own name in the early 1800s
Kate Borst
Kate Kanim Borst was a Native American woman who witnessed the transformation of Snoqualmie Valley from prairies and Indian encampments to the beginnings of suburbia.