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William D. Matthews : ウィキペディア英語版 | William D. Matthews
William D. Matthews (c.1827 - 1906) was an African American abolitionist, Civil War Union officer and Freemason.He was leader in Leavenworth, Kansas as well as nationally. == Life In Maryland ==
William D. Matthews was born free to mixed-race parents. His father, Joseph, was a man of African descent who hailed from Delaware. His mother, the half-white slave daughter of a Frenchman, had gained her release from bondage upon her father’s death.Matthews moved to Baltimore in the late 1840s and worked as a sailor until 1854, when he purchased his own vessel and worked the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River. But discriminatory laws limited his ability to make a living. He sold the boat and left Maryland.
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