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Title
Mary Ellen Pleasant, San Francisco pioneer, circa 1857
Alternative Title
Mary Ellen Pleasant, entrepreneur and abolitionist of African descent
Contributor
Early California, 1781-1920
Date Created and/or Issued
1857
[circa 1857]
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information
spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description
Mary Ellen Pleasant was a very successful 19th-century African American entrepreneur, financier, real estate magnate and abolitionist. She was a "conductor” on the Underground Railroad and helped John Brown plan and finance his slave uprising.
Studio portrait of Mary Ellen Pleasant.
Type
image
Identifier
uclalsc_1889_b04_f16_004a.tif
ark:/21198/z1058zxb
Subject
African American businesspeople
African American abolitionists
Pleasant, Mary Ellen, 1814-1904
Source
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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