She swept floors. She poured tea. To San Francisco’s elite in the 1850s, Mary Ellen Pleasant was invisible—just another servant moving silently through gilded halls.
But while they whispered about fortunes by the fire, she was listening. Learning. Planning. And then—building an empire worth millions, funding freedom in secret, and defying a society that tried to erase her.
This is the story of the woman they called a “voodoo queen”—but history remembers as a strategist, a revolutionary, and a fearless voice for justice. ✊🏾
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