Priscilla "Mother" Baltimore (13 May 1801 – 28 November 1882, died age 81[1]) was a multiracial abolitionist and a social worker.

[4] In 1829, she fled St. Louis, and Missouri (a slave state), crossing the Mississippi with eleven black families, and, on the opposite bank, founded Brooklyn, Illinois, described as a freedom village, according to local oral histories (a village where the inhabitants could, despite the "black codes" in law at the time, live more freely, including escaped slaves legally liable to recapture).

[3] The land the families settled was owned by a white farmer named Thomas Osburn.

[3] In 1861, one "Pricilla Baltimore" (sic), occupation "washer", paid $500 as a "Free Negro Bond" to the State of Missouri.

[5] After the end of the US Civil War in 1865, Priscilla Baltimore was active in social and religious organizations helping freed slaves coming north.

[2] When Priscilla Baltimore died in 1882, there were two articles written about her in the St. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat, an unusual amount of coverage for a black woman at that time.