Mary Barnes Cabell
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Mary Barnes Cabell
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Mary Barnes Cabell (1815–1900) was an American freedwoman who enabled the foundation of Institute, West Virginia. Her story was dramatized in a movie in 2020 called River of Hope. Cabell, born Mary Barnes, was born enslaved in 1815 and was purchased by bachelor farmer Samuel I. Cabell in Virginia. They lived on land that later became Kanawha County, West Virginia that Cabell had purchased from the heirs of Martha Washington in 1853. She had thirteen children fathered by Cabell. Cabell wrote seve
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American freedwoman (1815–1900)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Barnes_Cabell
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2023-09-11T01:03:00Z
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