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Mary Ellen Pleasant (August 19, 1814 [a] – January 11, 1904 [b]) was an American entrepreneur, financier, real estate magnate and abolitionist. She was arguably the first self-made millionaire of African-American heritage, preceding Madam C. J. Walker by decades.
Teresa Percy flees her abusive husband, a gambling addict, from New York City to San Francisco in the mid-1800s. Her new friend Lizzie, a prostitute, introduces her to Ms. Mary Ellen "Mammy" Pleasant, a mysterious local socialite infamous for having "rescued" and gainfully employed numerous black people who were former slaves and part of southern America's African-American diaspora.
Mary Ellen is a given name. Notable people with the name include: Mary Ellen Duncan (1941–2022), American academic administrator and teacher; Mary Ellen Mark (1940–2015), American photographer; Mary Ellen Pleasant (1815–1904), American entrepreneur, financier, real estate magnate, and abolitionist
Bell was a decades-long bachelor [4] when Pleasant introduced him to Teresa Percy Hoey, [3] [10] who had been one of her "protégés". [11] [d] Teresa's maiden name was Harris and she was a widow when she married Bell. [10] Home of Mary Ellen Pleasant and Thomas Bell's family, 1861 Octavia, San Francisco, California
Members of the Chatham community were notified in September 1858 that a white man was traveling with a black boy through Canada and to Detroit, Michigan.W. R. Merwin transported a 10-year-old boy [9] or teen Sylvanus Demarest on a train from London, Ontario, to Detroit, Michigan, in the United States.
Woodworth and his brother were abolitionists, his brother having served in the Atlantic to end the slave trade. A fugitive slave named Mary Ellen Pleasant had come to San Francisco in 1852 aboard the steamer Oregon. Initially she took employment working as a cook and housekeeper at the house belonging to the Case, Heiser & Company, Woodworth's ...
Mary Ellen Pleasant (American) John Wesley Posey (American) Gabriel Prosser (insurrectionist, American slave) Harriet Forten Purvis (American) Robert Purvis (American) Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis (American) John Rankin (American) Hermann Raster (American) John D. Read (American) Charles Lenox Remond (American) Ernestine Rose (American) Benjamin ...
The Image used is not of Mary Ellen Pleasant but of the Queen of Hawai'i. Emalani Na'ea Rooke. they do look similar however, there are actually no images of Mary Ellen Pleasant in her younger years. all images that have depictated her as such are actually that of the Hawaiian queen. now, I have seen mentions of Mary Ellen Pleasant stating her ...