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