Entrepreneurs and Business
Clara Brown (entrepreneur; community leader; philanthropist)
Paul Cuffe (also know as Paul Cuffee) (shipbuilder; whaler; merchant; abolitionist)
Mary Fields (known as Stagecoach Mary) (mail carrier on a Star Route for the U.S. Postal Service)
John Harold Johnson (businessman and publisher)
Biddy Mason (real estate entrepreneur)
May Ellen Pleasant (entrepreneur; financier; abolitionist)
Benjamin “Pap” Singleton (businessman; activist)
Monroe Trotter (born William Monroe Trotter) (real estate businessman; civil rights activist; journalist; editor)