Emilie "Emily" Frances Davis was a free African American woman living in Philadelphia during the American Civil War. She wrote three pocket diaries for the years 1863, 1864, and 1865 recounting her perspective on the Emancipation Proclamation, the Battle of Gettysburg, and the mourning of President Lincoln. These diaries are unique in their depiction of 19th century life of urban African American women and reactions to the events of the Civil War.
- Occupation
- writer, diarist, domestic worker, dressmaker
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- February 18, 1842, February 18, 1838
- Died
- December 26, 1899
