Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett (Q490447)
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HC-PER-39180
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Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett
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Ebenezer Don Carlos
Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett
Free before 13th Amendment. A school principal and, after the Civil War, the minister resident and consul general to Haiti and chargé d'affaires to the Dominican Republic. Through these posts he became the first African American to officially represent the U.S. government abroad.