Jennie Carter was an articulate social critic who wrote from her home in Nevada City during the mid-1860s through the 1870s. Excerpts from Jennie Carter’s essays are dramatized in the following historical video short. If you enjoyed this post check out; Jennie Carter’s Nevada County Setting 1860s, 2nd Marriage & ObituaryJennie Carter’s Pre-Civil War, Civil War & Reconstruction-era … Read More
Jennie Carter’s Pre-Civil War, Civil War & Reconstruction-era 1846-1870
Jennie Carter was an esteemed Nevada City essayist who wrote and published articles in a San Francisco newspaper between 1867-1874. She was a free black woman born in 1830 (or 1831). *Free people of color first arrived on the North American continent in the French territories and with the Spanish and Portuguese. They were highly educated and successful in business. To … Read More
