Dinah Chase Whipple (c. 1760- February 13, 1846) was an emancipated slave who was a leader in Portsmouth, New Hampshire's free Black community.
[2] On February 22, 1781, when she was freed by her owner, she moved to Portsmouth and married Prince Whipple, a former soldier in the Revolutionary War.
[6] In 1832, Whipple was forced from her house on High Street due to its deteriorating condition.
[1] As the wife of Prince's former enslaver died in that year as well, her heirs gave Dinah the use of a house on Pleasant Street and a small annuity.
[4] Uncommon for a Black person at the time, Whipple was eulogized in the Portsmouth Journal of Literature and Politics, which noted, "Few, of any color, have lived a more upright, virtuous, and truly Christian life … enjoyed a more calm, tranquil and happy old age, and few have had a more peaceful and happy death.
"[1] The University of New Hampshire's Dinah Whipple STEAM Academy, "an immersive educational program that explores science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics (STEAM), as well as the Black experience," is named in Whipple's honor.