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Mary Ellen Pleasant
American entrepreneur, financier, real estate magnate and abolitionist (1815–1904)
Mary Ellen Pleasant (August 19, 1814[a] – January 11, 1904[b]) was an American entrepreneur, financier, real estate magnate and abolitionist.
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She was arguably the first self-made millionaire of African-American heritage, preceding Madam C. J. Walker by decades.[9]
She identified herself as "a capitalist by profession" in the 1890 United States census.[10] Her aim was to earn as much money as she was able to help as many people as she could.
With her riches she was able to provide transportation, housing, and food for survival. She trained people how to stay safe, succeed, carry themselves, and more. The "one woman social agency" served African Americans before and during the Civil War, as well as meeting a different set of needs after Emancipation.
She worked on the Underground Railroad and expanded it westward during the California