TIL about Sarah Rector, an impoverished black girl who became a millionaire oil baron when oil was discovered on the land allotted to her by the government. She avoided hundreds of attempts tp scam her out of her fortune and became known as the “Richest coloured girl in the world.”

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Submitted October 21, 2018 at 08:25PM by Yorkshire_Bjorn https://ift.tt/2S8g2s3