Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault

Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault (c. 1800 – 1857) was an American entrepreneur and landowner. She managed to acquire land in the city of Savannah in Georgia, despite the prohibition against landowning in Antebellum Savannah for non-white people.

Biography Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault born a free person of color in the French colony of Saint Domingue. She was the daughter (or younger sister) of Hagar Cruvellier (fl. 1823) and the sister of Francis, Peter and Justine Cruvellier. She emigrated with her family to Savannah as a child. From 1812, she lived in Savannah, Georgia, where her family established a successful tailor shop.

She initially worked in the family tailor workshop with her family as a seamstress. In 1825, she opened a bakery and pastry shop with her sister Justine. She became a very successful businesswoman. She married Samuel Mirault, with whom she had the daughters Louisa and Letitia. She was widowed in 1829 or 1831. By that time, she owned her own pastry shop. Like her mother and her sister, she used slave labour in her business: in 1839, she paid taxes for five female slaves.