If you live in south Carolina there are people you may not know . Sometimes you can have know clue on the people that had an impact on the society that we live in today.There is a woman named Eliza Lucas Pinckney. She was born December 28, 1722 in Antigua and Barbuda. She died May 26, 1793. She lived to be 71 years old She lived in . He father was a British army officer. She grew up on a island called Antigua but she went to school in London. She studied music and French but her favorite thing to study in botany.When she was still a child she moved to South Carolina and her mother died momentarily. After turning 16, her father had to go back to the West Indies and she had to run three plantations. While her father away he sent her
She was a poor tobacco farmer and mother of five, born in southern Virginia in 1920.
Elizabeth Lucas Pinckney was one of the first women to show appreciation toward America. One of our first “Founding Mothers.” Eliza’s affection for America grew so deep within her career, she left her children and homeplace to keep South Carolina from great turmoil. Her goal in having the plantations was to make South Carolina one of the most capital places for exporting Indigo. Throughout her life she ambled to work solo in her career. George Lucas (father of Eliza), pushed her to find a husband- somebody to work along side of Eliza to better help the business. At the time, most colonial women married at teenage years, but Eliza married Charles Pinckney at the age of twenty-two. Most colonial women had around 7-10 children in their lifetime,
Isabelle Baunfree who changed it to sojourner truth who was a slave. She was auctions off to a owner. She live thought woman suffrage. she was in the civil war. The times was hard made she fought for what beveled and she love god.
After graduating from college she taught at a female college in Danville, Kentucky. In 1871, she moved to Cartersville, Georgia where she opened a female high school along with her friend Anna Safford. While in Georgia she joined the First Baptist church and ministered to underprivileged families in Bartow County. While she was ministering to these families she knew that she wanted to do more. She wanted to explore other countries around the world; she wanted to know if they had the same opportunity as her to hear the
Her paternal and maternal grandmothers were a part of the biggest influence but were two ends of the culinary spectrum; Her maternal grandmother, Bertha Philpot Jones, was the quintessential African American matriarch who gave her a taste of savory goods, where as her paternal grandmother, Ida Irene Harris, who she loving referred to as Grandma Harris was another kind of old-line southern matriarch, who gave her the taste of her southern
The person I chose to talk about is William Floyd. He was born december 17,1734. He was born in Brookhaven,suffolk,New York. He died August 4th,1821.He was a farmer,politician, and he signed the Declaration of independence.His father was Nicoll Floyd, an fancy and honest landholder, whose ancestors came to America from Wales, about the year 1680, and settled on Long Island. The father of William died while his son was young, and left him do what he want to a large estate. His great grandfather, Richard Floyd had moved from Wales to Long Island in the 17th C. William’s parents were Nicoll Floyd and Tabitha Smith. Young William was born on 17 December 1734 in what is now called Mastic, Long Island, but was then a part of Brookhaven Township.
One fact I found interesting about Catherine Blankley is that despite the fact that slavery was going on she was a midwife to over 3,000 childbirth deliveries of any color. Catherine was buried at a cemetery that was once used as a hospital during two wars as it states in her biography. Edith Cumbo seemed to be remarkable women as I learned she is one of the few free blacks that lived in Williamsburg. She is very fortunate to be the daughter of a free woman. Under a Virginia law that resulted in her also being free as well. She is a talented, smart and independent woman who found her own work with also being the head of her household. George Washington was one of the most famous presidents as he was America's first. Throughout the years of learning history, George Washington has always been so intriguing. A new fact I have learned about Washington is that
Jane Addams, Whitney M.Young, Jr., and Ida B Wells were all great social reformers of the nineteenth and twentieth century. They were passionate about the lives of others which drew them to a calling that not only effected their generation but generations after till this day. The impact they left were building blocks that impacted the welfare of society for and shaped the diversity of American civilization for harmony. Though they came from various backgrounds they all had a commonality which was social justice and the courage to lead and make ways for others who have been oppressed and marginalized.
Starting at a young age she had a fascination with taking note and sketching the animals she observed in the wild. She also had a love for reading about animal behavior and zoology. In 1850 she received her school certificate two years later she received a higher education. She had always dreamed of going to africa so when she left school at age 28 she started to save up for her long awaited trip to africa.
Malcolm X. These people also made huge impacts in the world but none of this would have happened without the
She grew up in the backwoods of eastern Kentucky, among plains and pastures where she and her siblings roamed and read every book their family owned (Kingsolver). Her love of literature was born at an early age. Even though
Emma Willard was raised by her father who was a farmer. He encouraged her to read, write, think independently, and to attend a local academy. Right after she began teaching. In 1809, she married a doctor named John Willard. Then she opened her own school, the Middlebury Female Seminary, in 1814 and provided advanced education for young women who were denied by colleges.
Throughout the course of history, there have been many important people whose names shall be known forever. But what about the people who shaped the world, but didn’t get the fame? Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, or Eliza Hamilton, was one of those people. Eliza Hamilton was born in 1757 in Albany, New York, and she died at the age of 97 in Washington, D.C. When she was 23 years old, she married the man who would forever change her future: Alexander Hamilton. As well as performing the expected hardships of being a mother in the 18th century, Eliza also greatly helped Alexander with his work. She helped him write many of his essays and speeches, and she gave him advice about all aspects of his work in the colonial government. Eliza’s devoted work
In American history there have been many truly extraordinary women. These women range from all different time periods, races and other backgrounds. Over the years women have participate or become involved in multiple different themes including: politics, midwives or physicians, inventors, literary or arts figures, feminists, suffrage or equal rights activist, wealthy women, academics, fighters- physical or metaphorical etc. This paper will exemplify three special women, all the while providing background, some life achievements and details of their last years. These women are Ida Wells, Isabella Baumfree (A.K.A Sojourner Truth) and Harriet Tubman. All African American abolitionist who fought endlessly for the civil rights owed to them as Americans, free citizens and humans.
There are many people in history who have made a very big impact on their