Mifflin Wistar Gibbs Biography
- From stable boy to abolitionist
- Gold rush racism
- Success in Canada
- Blacks in the West
- Successful lawyer and politician
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Born April 17, 1823
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died July 11, 1915
Little Rock, Arkansas
Abolitionist, pioneer, businessman, lawyer, elected official, college president
"Labor to make yourself as indispensable as possible in all your relations with the dominant race, and color will cut less figure in your upward grade."
Mifflin Wistar Gibbs was a pioneer in every sense of the word. In the 1850s he was among the many pioneers who set out for California in search...
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