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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.
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
Mary Ellen Pleasant (between 1814 and 1817–1904) – entrepreneur and human rights activist [88] Iris Rideau (born 1937) – winemaker, businesswoman and activist; Charles Rochon (1673–1733) – French colonist and was one of the four founders of modern-day Mobile, Alabama.
Members of the organization included Lucy Stanton Day, [6] James Henry Harris, G. W. Brodie, [7] Ann Shadd Cary, Thomas Cary, Isaac Shadd, William Howard Day, Martin Delany, Osborne Perry Anderson, [2] John James Pleasant, and Mary Ellen Pleasant. [8]
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
Similarly, in The Wind on Her Tongue, Oya’s relationships with Marie Laveau and Mary Ellen Pleasant provide her with guidance, solidarity and a shared sense of purpose. These women, each ...
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 Pleasant and Teresa Bell oversaw the family finances together, but by 1897 the family was deeply in debt. Fred Bell blamed Pleasant, and he filed a series of lawsuits directed at gaining control of the estate. The litigation perpetuated the image of Pleasant, a light-skinned woman who had once passed for white, as a devious "mammy."