1750 - 1835
Obour Tanner
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Obour Tanner is a member of the following lists: People from Newport, Rhode Island, Year of birth uncertain and 1835 deaths.
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1749
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| Died |
21st June, 1835
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| Place of Death |
Newport, Rhode Island
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Obour Tanner, also spelled Abour or Arbour (c. 1750 — June 21, 1835), was an enslaved African woman who lived in Newport, Rhode Island. Tanner was a regular correspondent of poet Phillis Wheatley, and the only correspondent of Wheatley's that was of African descent. Tanner acted as an agent for Wheatley in Newport and made the largest known order of Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral in 1773.
