Sarah Boone, a formerly enslaved woman, transformed a plank of wood into the first cousin of the ironing board used today. She patented her idea in 1892, placing her amng the first African American ...
Sarah Boone was born to enslaved parents in 1832. In 1847 she married a free African American, James Boone, and left North Carolina before the outbreak of the Civil War using the network known as the ...
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