Quote of the day
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
Mary Ellen Pleasant
Born: 1814
Died: January 4, 1904 (aged 90)
Bio: Mary Ellen Pleasant was a 19th-century African American entrepreneur widely known as Mistress Pleasant. She identified herself as "a capitalist by profession" in the 1890 United States Census. People called her "Mammy" Pleasant but she did not approve.