Biographies

Period 1: The Slave Period

Agrippa Hull---Revolutionary War Soldier

Ann Randolph Meade--- Slavery "Reformer"

Benjamin Thornton Montgomery--- Businessman

Betsey Stockton--- Educator, Freedwoman

Caesar Tarrent--- Revolutionary War Patriot

Christian Fleetwood--- Civil War Medal of Honor Winner

David George--- Lay Minister, African Emigre to Africa

David Ruggles--- Newspaperman and Abolitionist

David Walker--- Used-Clothing Dealer and Political Writer

Denmark Vesey--- Freedom Fighter, South Carolina

Elizabeth Jennings--- Pre-Civil War Rosa Parks

Elizabeth Keckley--- Seamstress to Mary Todd Lincoln

Edward Roye--- First President of Liberia

Grabriel--- Freedom Fighter, 1800

Henry Highland Garnet--- Minister, Abolitionist, Moralist

Hinton Helper--- Southern Racist White Opponent to Slavery

Henry Bibb--- Escaped Slave, Author, Editor and Lecturer

Ira Aldridge--- World Renowned Actor of Shakespearean Tragedies. An Expatriate

James Lafayette--- Patriot Spy (known to history as James Armistead)

Jane Johnson--- Escaped Slave, Abolitionist, Narrative Writer

Josephine Griffing---- Freedmen's Aid Reformer

Lucy Stone--- Abolitionist and Women's [Including African American Women's] Rights Advocate

Nancy Gardner Prince--- World Traveler, Servant to the Czar, Author

Prince Saunders--- Author and Colonizationist [and Pan-African]

Prince Whipple--- Revolutionary War Soldier

Prince Hall--- Philadelphia Leader and Founder of Black Lodge of Masons

Sally Hemings--- Enslaved Lady’s Maid, Seamstress, [Mistress to Thomas Jefferson?]

Samuel Ringgold Ward--- Abolitionist and Newspaper Editor

Sarah Grimke--- Southern-Born Abolitionist

Sarah Mapps Douglass--- Abolitionist, Educator

Thomas Morris---- First Abolitionist Elected to Senate

William Flora--- Revolutionary War Hero and Businessman

William Still--- Abolitionist and Businessman

York--- Explorer. With Lewis and Clark