Peake, Mary Smith Kelsey

Life Span
to
Full name
Mary Smith Kelsey Peake
Place of Birth
Norfolk, VA
Burial Place
Hampton, VA
Birth Date Certainty
Estimated
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Female
Race
Mixed (Mulatto)
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Slave State
Family
Thomas Peake (husband) 
Occupation
Educator
Relation to Slavery
Free black
Church or Religious Denomination
Baptist
Date Event
In Hampton, Virginia, Mary Smith Peake teaches her first classes for "contrabands"
Mary Smith Peake, teacher of classes for "contrabands," dies of tuberculosis in Hampton, Virginia
Emancipation
19th-Century Education
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