The remarkable story of America’s 1st woman undertaker who helped people escape slavery in coffins
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Women had for many years been caregivers to the dead, washing the body or dressing it for home burials. But in the 1800s when the funeral home industry emerged with the rise of embalming, burials became a man’s job. In 1858, Henrietta Bowers Duterte challenged the gender norms of her time to become America’s first...