matzeliger, jan ernst

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Shoes for everyone

a story about Jan Matzeliger
1986
A biography of the half-Dutch/half-black Surinamese man who, despite the hardships and prejudice he found in his new Massachusetts home, invented a shoe-lasting machine that revolutionized the shoe industry in the late nineteenth century.
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