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'''Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault''' (1800-1857), was an American planter and landowner. She managed to aquire land and become a planter in Georgia despite the fact that landowning on this scale was prohibited by law in Antebellum Georgia for non white people.
Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault was a [[free people of color|free person of color]] and born in [[Saint Domingue]], but emigrated as a child with her family to the United States. From 1812, she lived in [[Savannah, Georgia]], where her family established a successful tailor shop. She herself achieved success in the pastry business. In 1842, she became a landowner. This was in fact prohibited by law for a person of her color in pre civil war Georgia, but she managed to get around the law by having a male white business partner.
==References==
* American National Biography
* Janice Sumler-Edmond, ''[https://ift.tt/2LI5jmE The Secret Trust of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault: The Life and Trials of a Free Woman of Color in Antebellum Georgia]''
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Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault was a [[free people of color|free person of color]] and born in [[Saint Domingue]], but emigrated as a child with her family to the United States. From 1812, she lived in [[Savannah, Georgia]], where her family established a successful tailor shop. She herself achieved success in the pastry business. In 1842, she became a landowner. This was in fact prohibited by law for a person of her color in pre civil war Georgia, but she managed to get around the law by having a male white business partner.
==References==
* American National Biography
* Janice Sumler-Edmond, ''[https://ift.tt/2LI5jmE The Secret Trust of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault: The Life and Trials of a Free Woman of Color in Antebellum Georgia]''
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[[Category:1800 births]]
[[Category:1857 deaths]]
[[Category:19th-century businesswomen]]
[[Category:19th-century American businesspeople]]
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