Henrietta Vinton Davis

Henrietta Vinton Davis was an American elocutionist, dramatist, and impersonator.

Henrietta Vinton Davis was born in Baltimore to musician Mansfield Vinton and Mary Ann Davis. Shortly after her birth her father died. Within six months her mother was remarried to influential Baltimorean George A. Hackett. Hackett was a member of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church and worked to defeat the 1859 Jacobs bill that intended to enslave the children of free Africans and deport their parents from the state of Maryland.

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