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Kitty Foster

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Catherine "Kitty" Foster (c. 1790–1863) was a freed African American woman, notable for having owned property just to the south of the University of Virginia from 1833 until her death in 1863. Her homestead is now a historic site on the campus of the University of Virginia, known as the Foster Site.

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