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Rachel Cliff

1806–1885

United States

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Rachel Cliff (1806–1885) was one of two women to serve as an official delegate to the Philadelphia meeting of the 1855 Colored Convention, along with Elizabeth Armstrong. She worked as a "janitrix", or janitress, in Philadelphia.

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