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Mary Ellen Pleasant (August 19, 1814 – January 11, 1904) 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.
Ocupação. Empresária e abolicionista. Mary Ellen Pleasant ( 19 de agosto de 1814 ou 1817 - 4 de janeiro de 1904) foi uma empresária e comerciante negra dos Estados Unidos, conhecida como "Senhora Pleasant", apesar de muitos chamarem-na de "Mamãe Pleasant", o que a desagradava.
Resource. Life Story: Mary Ellen Pleasant (1814–1904) Businesswoman and Abolitionist. The story of a Black entrepreneur who made her fortune in the West. Print Page. Mary Ellen Pleasant. “Image of Mary Ellen Pleasant,” Historic Nantucket, Spring 1995. Berkeley Library Digital Collections, University of California.
2 de dez. de 2020 · Mary Ellen Pleasant foi uma figura de grande importância no século 19, nos Estados Unidos. A mulher de origem humilde é conhecida por fazer fortuna sem a ajuda de ninguém, somente usando seus conhecimentos para investir.
Date of Death: 1904. Mary Ellen Pleasant was perhaps the most powerful Black woman in Gold Rush-era San Francisco. Accounts differ on where she was born and whether or not she was enslaved; however, by the 1820s she was in New England, working at a busy shop and likely helping fellow Black Americans to freedom along the Underground Railroad.
14 de fev. de 2020 · 0:00. Born in 1814, Mary Ellen Pleasant became one of America's first black female self-made millionaires by using the fact that she was often overlooked by wealthy elites to her advantage....
30 de jan. de 2007 · Mary Ellen Pleasant was born on Aug. 19, 1814 in Virginia and spent her early years in Nantucket, Massachusetts . She worked as a bond servant to the Hussey family, an abolitionist family. She later married James Smith, a wealthy former plantation owner and an abolitionist.
