Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Jan Matzeliger
Standard Name: Matzeliger, Jan
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20 March 1883: Jan Matzeliger, a young immigrant to the...
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20 March 1883
Jan Matzeliger
, a young immigrant to the USA from Dutch Guiana (now Surinam), whose father was Dutch and whose mother was Black, received a patent for the shoe-lasting machine he invented.
Tenner, Edward. “A Place for Hype”. London Review of Books, 10 May 2007, pp. 33-4.
