High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lisette Denison Forth (c. 1786 – August 7, 1866) was an African-American woman from Michigan who was born a slave. She worked as a maid and became a landowner and philanthropist. Elisabeth (Lisette) Denison Forth was born as a slave in 1786 near Detroit, the second of Peter and Hannah Denison's six children. Her family was owned by William and Catherine Tucker; her father worked on the family farm and her mother worked in the Tucker's house. When William Tucker died in 1805, he specified that Peter and Hannah Denison would be freed after Catherine Tucker's death, but willed the Denison children to his brother. The next year, Peter and Hannah Denison were freed and went to work for Elijah Brush, who encouraged them to sue for the freedom of their children under the Northwest Ordinance, which prohibited slavery in the territory.

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