Mary Silvina Burghardt Du Bois | |
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 Du Bois (right) with her son. | |
| Born | Mary Silvina Burghardt 1831 |
| Died | 1885 (aged 53–54) Great Barrington, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Resting place | Mahaiwe Cemetery |
| Occupation | servant |
| Spouse | Alfred Du Bois |
| Children | W. E. B. Du Bois |
| Parent(s) | Othello Burghardt Sarah Lampman |
Mary Silvina Burghardt Du Bois (1831 – 1885) was an American domestic worker. She was born a free woman as the granddaughter of a freedman landowner who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. She was the mother of the activist and sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois, whose education she supported by working as a servant after her husband left her.