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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.
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.
14 feb 2020 · 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. Here's...
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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.
30 gen 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.
1 feb 2019 · Born into slavery, Mary Ellen Pleasant became a Gold Rush-era millionaire, defying conventions of what a black woman could be in the 19th century.
3 feb 2019 · Names like Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth are well-known to most Americans, but Mary Ellen Pleasant rarely emerges from the murky depths of history. Her story isn’t tidy like others.
