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Did You Know....
A formerly enslaved man became one of the wealthiest Black Americans of the 1800s?
William Alexander Leidesdorff
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William Alexander Leidesdorff, born in 1810, became a successful businessman and landowner in early San Francisco. He served as U.S. vice consul to Mexico and was one of the city's earliest prominent Black civic leaders.
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