Isabella Gibbons was a pioneer educator who established a freedmen school in Charlottesville, Virginia. Gibbons was born enslaved during the 1830s. She learned how to read and write despite Virginia's laws that made it difficult for those enslaved to do so. By the 1850s, records show that Gibbons was owned Physics professor Francis Smith at […]

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