Kate Drumgoold (born c. 1858 or 1859 – ?
)[1] was an American woman born into slavery around 1858 near Petersburg, Virginia.
Her life is captured in her 1898 autobiography, A Slave Girl's Story, Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold.
It offers a message of racial uplift, faith, and education.
[2] "It is a rare portrait of a former slave who moved between the highly urbanized environment of New York City and the rural South.