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Ebenezer Bassett
*Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett was born on this date in 1833. He was a black diplomat.

Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, he was also of Pequot Indian ancestry. Bassett was educated at the Connecticut Normal School and worked for fourteen years as a teacher in Philadelphia. He was United States minister to Haiti from 1869 to 1879.

This appointment made Bassett the first black diplomat in America. He also became the Haitian consul in New York City. He was also a great friend of Frederick Douglass and they exchanged correspondence in French for many years. Ebenezer Bassett died in 1908 and his burial was in Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven, Connecticut.

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