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Mary Howard Schoolcraft

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Mary Howard Schoolcraft (1820 – March 12, 1878) was an American writer, the author of the controversial pro-slavery novel, The Black Gauntlet: A Tale of Plantation Life in South Carolina.[1] She was the second wife of geographer, geologist and ethnologist Henry Schoolcraft.[2] She lived in Washington, D.C.[1]

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  1. ^ a b Lightweis-Goff, Jennie (2025). Captive city: meditations on slavery in the urban south. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-5128-2668-5.
  2. ^ "Schoolcraft, Mary Howard". American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present. Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
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