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MEN COULD NEVER: Mary Fields

In this new series, Men Could Never: The Women Who Built Our World, I'm taking a very quick look back at some of the most amazing women from history who helped make our world as amazing as it is today. This episode is about Mary Fields, an incredible pioneer woman who worked on steamboats, opened restaurants, and was the first African American woman to carry mail for the United States Post Office. *Sources and Further Reading* https://www.nps.gov/people/mary-fields.htm#:~:text=Born%20enslaved%20in%20Tennessee%20in,steamboats%20along%20the%20Mississippi%20River. https://www.historyinthemargins.com/2025/06/10/stagecoach-mary-fields-carries-the-mail/ https://postalmuseum.si.edu/stagecoach-mary-fields https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/mary-fields https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Fields https://americacomesalive.com/mary-fields-ca-1832-1914-known-as-stagecoach-mary/ https://allthatsinteresting.com/stagecoach-mary-fields https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/question/2014/march.htm https://blackpast.org/african-american-history/at-the-junction-of-history-and-myth-mary-fields-ca-1832-1914-a-black-woman-on-the-montana-frontier/ https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=18sDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA96&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false *Follow me:* https://linktr.ee/rachel0ates

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In this new series, Men Could Never: The Women Who Built Our World, I'm taking a very quick look back at some of the most amazing women from history who helped make our world as amazing as it is today.


This episode is about Mary Fields, an incredible pioneer woman who worked on steamboats, opened restaurants, and was the first African American woman to carry mail for the United States Post Office.


*Sources and Further Reading*

https://www.nps.gov/people/mary-fields.htm#:~:text=Born%20enslaved%20in%20Tennessee%20in,steamboats%20along%20the%20Mississippi%20River.

https://www.historyinthemargins.com/2025/06/10/stagecoach-mary-fields-carries-the-mail/

https://postalmuseum.si.edu/stagecoach-mary-fields

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/mary-fields

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Fields

https://americacomesalive.com/mary-fields-ca-1832-1914-known-as-stagecoach-mary/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/stagecoach-mary-fields

https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/question/2014/march.htm

https://blackpast.org/african-american-history/at-the-junction-of-history-and-myth-mary-fields-ca-1832-1914-a-black-woman-on-the-montana-frontier/

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=18sDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA96&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

*Follow me:*

https://linktr.ee/rachel0ates

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