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I am Karen Hunter and do you have an office with a desk or a bookshelf that you can then fold down and people can stay over and it can transform that

room into a bedroom. Well, that's called the Murphy bed. Did you know who invented the Murphy bed?

Well, if you stay tuned, Shontavia Johnson, patent attorney will tell you about Sarah Good. Stay tuned.

All right. Welcome back to another classroom setting. And of course,

I have my patent attorney is mine. My patent and trademark attorney extraordinaire, Ms.

Shontavia Johnson. You can follow her as Shontavia, S-H-O-N-T-A-A-A.com. Thank you for being here today.

I appreciate you. Always a pleasure to talk to you.

Well, you know, it's important that we talk about this,

excavate our ancestors and tell their stories.

And, you know, we, of course, necessity is the mother of invention.

We know that black folk probably were some of the greatest inventors of all time,

particularly in the new world. And so today you're going to tell us about one of the greatest inventors of all time, particularly in the new world.

And so today you're going to tell us about one of the first black women to hold a patent?

One of the first black women to own a patent. That's right. Her name was Sarah Good, G-O-O-D-E.

She was born in 1855 in Toledo, Ohio. And one of the interesting things about Sarah Good is that she was born the same year that the Fugitive Slave Act was enacted. So she was born in the slavery.

Some people with that, what is? The Fugitive Slave Act is where before that, if a person ran away,

they could find freedom up north, right? So in the South you could find freedom up north. Right.

So in the South you could find freedom up north or in the West where there wasn't a slave state.

But the Fugitive Slave Act changed the game.

That's right. The Fugitive Slave Act essentially said, if you made it to freedom and someone

caught you, you could be returned back into slavery.

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