By Victor Trammell Photo credits: Wikimedia Commons Pierre Toussaint, a former slave from the Caribbean who emigrated to the United States, rose to prominence as one of the country's most prominent Black philanthropists. He was born on January 27, 1766, in the then-French province of Haiti. His owners moved him to New York City in […]

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