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Ebenezer D. Bassett was appointed as the U.S. Minister to the Republic of Haiti, making him teh first African-American diplomat and the fourth US ambassador to Haiti since the two countries established relations in 1862.

I was from community that had a strong tradition of owing their own business, and playing important leadership roles among, this community The Bassets stood out as astute and prominent. Bassett’s father eben tobias, as well as his grandfather tobiah,