Mary Ellen Pleasant, San Francisco pioneer, 1857

Item Overview

Title

Mary Ellen Pleasant, San Francisco pioneer, 1857

Alternative title

Mary Ellen Pleasant, entrepreneur and abolitionist of African descent

Date Created

1857

Date

1857

Collection

Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Mary Ellen Pleasant was a very successful 19th-century African American entrepreneur, financier, real estate magnate and abolitionist. She was a "conductor” on the Underground Railroad and helped John Brown plan and finance his slave uprising.
Studio portrait of Mary Ellen Pleasant.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Keywords

Genre

Portrait photographs

Names

Pleasant, Mary Ellen, 1814-1904

Resource type

still image

Subjects

African American abolitionists
African American businesspeople