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Mary Frances Vashon

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Mary Frances Vashon (c. 1818 – September 1854) also known as Mary Frances Colder, and by her pen name Fanny Homewood, was an African American journalist and an abolitionist in the 19th century. She was one of the first African American female journalists in the United States.

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