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by Jae Jones - June 21, 2022 1 0

Mifflin Gibbs was an entrepreneur, abolitionist, and lawyer who was involved in the abolitionist movement with Frederick Douglass in western New York. He later relocated to California, where racial prejudices kept him from working as a carpenter. Therefore, with the little money he had saved as a shoe shiner, Gibbs opened a successful imported ...

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