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Mary Garnet Barboza
1845–1890
United States
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Mary Garnet Barboza (1845 – 1890) was an African-American school founder and campaigner for women's education in Liberia. She was born Mary Garnet on February 11, 1845, in Troy, New York, the only surviving child of abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet and his wife, abolitionist Julia Williams. In 1866 she married Antero Barboza, a black Brazilian civil rights campaigner.
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