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Mary Ellen Pleasant, a Friend of John Brown

Sordid SF by Monica Rodriguez

Episode notes
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".
Keywords
mary ellen pleasantabolitionistjohn brown