About Mary Howard Schoolcraft
Lived 1820 – 1878 (aged 57–58). Mary Howard Schoolcraft was an American writer.
Mary Howard Schoolcraft (1820 – March 12, 1878) was an American writer, the author of the controversial pro-slavery novel, The Black Gauntlet: A Tale of Plantation Life in South Carolina. She was the second wife of geographer, geologist and ethnologist Henry Schoolcraft. She lived in Washington, D.C.
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Who was Mary Howard Schoolcraft?
19th century American author
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Mary Howard Schoolcraft was born in 1820.
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Mary Howard Schoolcraft died on 12 March 1878.
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Mary Howard Schoolcraft was a writer.
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Mary Howard Schoolcraft was American.
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