Kate Drumgoold
Formerly enslaved African-American memoirist
About Kate Drumgoold
Born 1855.
Kate Drumgoold (born c. 1858 or 1859 – ?) was an American woman born into slavery around 1858 near Petersburg, Virginia. Her life is captured in her 1898 autobiography, A Slave Girl's Story, Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold. It offers a message of racial uplift, faith, and education. "It is a rare portrait of a former slave who moved between the highly urbanized environment of New York City and the rural South."
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Who was Kate Drumgoold?
formerly enslaved African-American memoirist
When was Kate Drumgoold born?
Kate Drumgoold was born in 1855.
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