Abolitionist, land owner, and business operator, Elizabeth Gloucester was said to be the wealthiest Black woman in the nation at the time of her death in 1883.
She acquired boarding homes, ran a second-hand clothing store, and a furniture store, eventually building her real estate empire.
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