Image / Mary Ellen Pleasant, San Francisco pioneer, 1857

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Title: Mary Ellen Pleasant, San Francisco pioneer, 1857
Alternative Title: Mary Ellen Pleasant, entrepreneur and abolitionist of African descent
Date Created and/or Issued: 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_002.tif
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Subject: African American abolitionists
African American businesspeople
Pleasant, Mary Ellen, 1814-1904
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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