Haitian-born Pierre Toussaint was literate, intelligent, and a talented fiddler. He was apprenticed as a coiffeur and could keep some of his earnings. His enslaver, Mary Ann Schuyler, and her SIL, Eliza Hamilton — the wife of Alexander — were his 1st clients.
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In 1811 he bought the freedom of his sister, Rosalie, and of a woman named Juliette Gaston whom he married. When Rosalie died, he and his wife raised Rosalie’s daughter, Euphémie." #BlackSky