Mary Garnet Barboza

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. They had four children. The school gave industrial training to 125 girls. In 1888, Mary was in England speaking at Manchester and Birmingham to raise money for her school, to the interest of the British press.