Kate Drumgoold
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Most Influential Person Across History
Formerly enslaved African-American memoirist
Why Is Kate Drumgoold Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kate Drumgoold was an American woman born into slavery around 1858 near Petersburg, Virginia. Her life is captured in her 1898 autobiography, A Slave Girl's Story, Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold. It offers a message of racial uplift, faith, and education. "It is a rare portrait of a former slave who moved between the highly urbanized environment of New York City and the rural South."
