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Hester Lane
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Hester Lane (died 1849) was an American abolitionist, philanthropist, entrepreneur, and political activist. Born into slavery in Maryland, she settled down in New York as a free woman. Lane was known in New York for her approach to adding color pigment to walls using whitewash, freeing slaves in Maryland through purchasing them, and the controversy surrounding her failed nomination to the American Anti-Slavery Society.
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