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''. She was the second wife of geographer, geologist and ethnologist
Henry Schoolcraft
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (March 28, 1793 – December 10, 1864) was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnology, ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native Americans in the United States, Native American cultures, as well as for his 1 ...
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1820 births
1878 deaths
American proslavery activists
19th-century American women writers
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