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Angela

Angela was an enslaved woman and among the first Africans to arrive in the Virginia colony in 1619.

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.

María Feliciana Arballo

María Feliciana Arballo, a 25-year-old widow of Afro-Latina descent with two small children, was one of about forty women in the Anza expedition when it began its colonizing journey from Sonora, Mexico to Alta California (upper California) in 1775.