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Maria Carter Syphax, otherwise spelled Mariah (1803 - ), was the matriarch of the Syphax family, a prominent family of African Americans in the greater Washington, D.C., area who became civic leaders, civil servants, and educators. She was born into slavery as Maria Carter, daughter of the enslaved (and later freed) maid, Arianna Carter Syphax. She was the illegitimate daughter of George Washington Parke Custis

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