• Mary Ellen Pleasant, a Friend of John Brown

  • Sep 19 2023
  • Length: 15 mins
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Mary Ellen Pleasant, a Friend of John Brown

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  • Mary Ellen Pleasant was a lot of things, but a weak woman wasn't one. Mary Ellen came from the humblest of beginnings in the South during the time of slavery and through ingenuity and hustle, became not only one of the wealthiest women California had ever known, but more importantly the "Mother of civil rights in California".
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