{"id":231118,"date":"2023-05-22T04:24:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T08:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=290264"},"modified":"2025-07-01T19:08:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T02:08:39","slug":"the-incredible-story-of-the-first-influencer-in-history-nancy-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-incredible-story-of-the-first-influencer-in-history-nancy-green\/","title":{"rendered":"From Servant to Superstar: Unveiling the Extraordinary Journey of Nancy Green, the First-Ever Influencer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We live in a world of influencers<\/a>: the word entered our lives a few years ago and has stuck with us ever since. Fashion influencers, film influencers, micro-influencers\u2026 Right now, ads featuring people who seem real are effective<\/strong>, and marketing agencies are well aware of this. But this is not new, nor is it a recent phenomenon: Do you not remember celebrities putting their face to advertise all sorts of products? Well, it started even before television.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The original influencer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There was a pioneer among all these anonymous people who ended up embodying a product: the proto-influencer, the first person who decided to be a kind of “mascot” for a product, was Nancy Green<\/strong>, who would ultimately become the first face that would simultaneously be a brand<\/a>. Now it seems like everyday life, but in 1893 it was not so common. And beware, because the story is full of racism, plot twists, and sadness: hard to believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nancy Hayes was born in 1834 as a slave on a farm in Kentucky, at a time when things were starting to change but it would still be another forty years before everything exploded (literally). During her childhood, she cultivated tobacco and took care of the Walker family’s livestock, who later used her as a servant, cook<\/a>, and housekeeper. She got married, had four children, which was normal for the time. And then the Civil War came<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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