Sarah Gammon Bickford was a Black chambermaid who later became an administrator, entrepreneur, and owner of a water company. She was born a slave on the Blair Plantation near Greensboro, North Carolina. After the Civil War, she moved to live with her aunt in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she changed her last name to that of […]
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