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Darth Vader (5,157 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and, as Anakin Skywalker, is the protagonist of the prequel trilogy. Born a slave, he later becomes a powerful Jedi. He is lured to the dark side of the

Daniel Coker (1,798 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Wright, was an African American of mixed race from Baltimore, Maryland. Born a slave, after he gained his freedom, he became a Methodist minister in 1802

Boston King (852 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

slave narratives as a work that was trans-Atlantic. King, who had been born a slave in South Carolina, was apprenticed as a carpenter. He joined the British

Austin Steward (601 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

February 15, 1869) was an African-American abolitionist and author. He was born a slave in Virginia then moved at age 7 with the Helm household to New York State

Peter Bruner (1,684 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Peter Bruner (c. 1845 – April 6, 1938) was born a slave in Kentucky. He escaped enslavement to join the Union Army during the Civil War. After the war

Leonard Black (2,116 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Leonard Black (March 8, 1820 – April 28, 1883) was born a slave in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, and was separated from his family by the age of six.

Pierre Toussaint (1,580 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

by Pope John Paul II 1854, a biography, Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo, was written by Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee and published

James M. Priest (151 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Liberia from 1864 to 1868 under President Daniel Bashiel Warner. He was born a slave in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Prior to the death of slaveowner Jane

Prominent Americans series (697 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Bank of America 25¢ rose lake - Frederick Douglass, abolitionist (born a slave), political activist, author and orator 30¢ reddish lilac - John Dewey

Midway, Texas (639 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Madison County. Midway was the birthplace of George McJunkin, who was born a slave. Midway is located at 31°1′23″N 95°45′4″W / 31.02306°N 95.75111°W

William Ezzard (658 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Catherine (daughter of Ezzard's biracial daughter Sinai Calhoun Webb, born a slave in 1830), married Antoine Graves, a prominent black realtor and educator

Samuel Benedict (277 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

politician and jurist who served as the 1st Chief Justice of Liberia. He was born a slave in the U.S. state of Georgia in 1792, and purchased his freedom and that

Free people of color (4,918 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Salem Poor (1747–1802), born a slave; purchased his freedom and joined the Continental Army Peter Salem (1750–1816), born a slave in Massachusetts; freed

African Americans in Alabama (1,936 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

McCrear, were all brought to Alabama. In 1870, Benjamin S. Turner, who was born a slave on March 17, 1825, in Weldon, North Carolina, was elected as Alabama's

Elias Camp Morris (682 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

September 5, 1922) was an American minister, politician, and businessman. Born a slave, Morris attended seminary then preached at Centennial Baptist Church

Condredge Holloway (734 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and Dorothy Holloway. Condredge's grandfather on his father's side was born a slave, but was emancipated as a child in 1865. Dorothy was hired to work at

Billy Walker (jockey) (246 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

William Walker (1860 – September 20, 1933) was an American jockey. Born a slave in near Versailles, Kentucky, Billy Walker was the leading rider at Churchill

Nathan B. Young (631 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

educator who helped advance black education in the early 20th century. Born a slave in Alabama, Young later became an educator after Booker T. Washington

John Edward Bruce (1,291 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

writer, orator, civil rights activist and Pan-African nationalist. He was born a slave in Maryland; as an adult, he founded numerous newspapers along the East

The Black Jacobins (3,108 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Revolution, and focuses on the leadership of Toussaint L'Ouverture, who was born a slave but rose to prominence espousing the French Revolutionary ideals of liberty

Angelina Valentijn (325 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Angelina Catharina Valentijn, also Anjelina van Batavia, (1768–1817) was born a slave in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, who after she was freed, accumulated remarkable

Caesar Tarrant (578 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

boat pilot who served as a patriot in the American Revolutionary War. Born a slave, Tarrant's skill as a pilot aboard the Patriot led to his manumission

George William Cook (137 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

instructor, dean, alumni secretary and manager at Howard University. Born a slave in Winchester, Virginia, he was one of 8 children of Eliza and Peyton

The Negress (303 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

enhancing the sculpture's use of light and shadow. The words, "Why be born a slave?" (in French, "Pourquoi! Naître esclave ?") are inscribed in the base

Ansel Williamson (317 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Jerome Handicap, Phoenix Stakes and Withers Stakes. Williamson was born a slave in Virginia in about 1806. His early horse racing experience came for

L'Malouma Saïd (302 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(Member of Parliament) to the Mauritanian National Assembly. Said was born a slave in the town of Boutilimit in 1972. Boutilimit, is southeast of the Mauritanian

Henry V. Plummer (1,649 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

preacher and chaplain with the United States Army Buffalo Soldiers. Born a slave on a plantation near Bowie, Maryland, he escaped slavery in his early

Harriet Evans Paine (354 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Paine (c. 1822–1917) was a Texas storyteller and oral historian. She was born a slave and was also known as "Aunt Harriet." Paine was born as a slave to Jim

Antonio Ruiz (soldier) (1,013 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

San Martín’s army. According to the most common story, Corporal Ruiz, born a slave (perhaps in Africa), served in the Regiment of the River Plate and died

Thomas H. Jones (738 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Rev. Thomas H. Jones (b. 1806) was born a slave Wilmington, North Carolina and was a prominent African-American abolitionist in antebellum America. Jones

Tall tale (1,616 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

gritty railroad engineer Nat Love, also known as "Deadwood Dick", was born a slave in Tennessee in 1854. Tales of his adventures after emancipation, as

Eliza Moore (282 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and Eliza was his only child which he had in his old age. Moore was born a slave in Montgomery County, Alabama, in 1843. Eliza is considered by many historians

Ezekiel Gillespie (299 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

won a landmark case securing voting rights in Wisconsin. Gillespie was born a slave in Canton, Mississippi or Greene County, Tennessee, probably the son

Richmondtown, Staten Island (511 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

bare-knuckle boxer Bill Richmond (August 5, 1763 – December 28, 1829) who was born a slave. Richmond went to England in 1777 where he achieved fame and fortune

Malvina Wells (390 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

22 April 1887) was the only known person buried in Edinburgh who was born a slave. Malvina Wells was born in 1804 in Carriacou, Grenada, in the West Indies

Esther Saunders (270 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(1793–1862) was a poet in New Jersey, USA. She was African American and born a slave before her family escaped and she was taken in by a Quaker family in

James Lindsay Smith (425 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(1881) was one of only six slave narratives published in Connecticut. Born a slave on a plantation in Northumberland County, Virginia, Smith escaped in

James M. Simms (428 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Assembly during the Reconstruction era. He was African American. Simms was born a slave in Savannah, Georgia. A carpenter by trade, he bought his freedom in

Chris Rabb (614 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in Baltimore Rabb's great-great-grandfather, John H. Murphy Sr., was born a slave and founded the Baltimore Afro-American in 1892. Shortly after beginning

William Q. Atwood (1,115 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1839 – December 21, 1910) was a lumber baron in Saginaw, Michigan. Born a slave in Alabama, he was freed in 1853 in the will of his white master and

Maya Rudolph (2,517 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

her maternal great-great-great-grandfather was James Grigsby, who was born a slave in Lincoln County, Kentucky. Grigsby was denied financial compensation

Green County, Kentucky (1,265 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Barren Lobb Mell Newt Pierce Roachville Webbs Junius George Groves, born a slave in Green County, he moved to Kansas in the 1870s and became known as

John L. Thompson (363 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Eldora, Eddie), and had one older half-brother (Benjamin Sheppard). Born a slave in Kentucky, Andy Thompson was released by his master in 1862 and settled

1868 in art (664 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

(approximate date) Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux - Why Born Enslaved! or Why Born a Slave? - French Pourquoi! Naitre esclave? or La Negresse (first conceived)

Pero's Bridge (601 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

also brought his wife's maid with him, Frances Coker, had also been born a slave, but Pinney had freed her some years before. The bridge was designed

Ulysses L. Houston (366 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Georgia's African-American community during the mid-19th century. He was born a slave in Grahamville, South Carolina, and was taken by his master Moses Henderson

James C. Dent House (153 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Washington, D.C., in the Buzzard Point neighborhood. James C. Dent was born a slave in 1855, in southern Maryland. He was a laborer, and married Mary, a

William R. Gamble (531 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

activist and barber in Lincoln, Nebraska and Omaha, Nebraska. Gamble was born a slave in Mobile, Alabama in about 1850. His wife, Eveline, had French-Canadian

William R. Gamble (531 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

activist and barber in Lincoln, Nebraska and Omaha, Nebraska. Gamble was born a slave in Mobile, Alabama in about 1850. His wife, Eveline, had French-Canadian

1815 in the United States (959 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

pastor (died 1908) May 10 – Henry Bibb, author and abolitionist who was born a slave (died 1854) May 18 – Thomas S. Bocock, United States Congressman, Speaker

Jehu Grant (446 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Jehu Grant (c. 1752 – December 28, 1840) was born a slave in Rhode Island. He was living in Narragansett in 1777 when he ran away from his enslaver Elihu

Dundas Valley Conservation Area (1,324 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Enerals Griffin and his wife Priscilla, including fifty acres of land. Born a slave in Virginia, Enerals escaped to Canada sometime in 1828-29, and both

Fredrick McGhee (1,171 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

African-American criminal defense lawyer and civil rights activist. Born a slave in Mississippi, McGhee would become the first black attorney in Minnesota

James Parks (freed slave) (436 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

is the only person buried there who was born on the grounds. He was born a slave but was later freed by his owner and continued to work at the cemetery

İsa Necati (508 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Not much is known on his origin and youth. It is agreed that he was born a slave in Edirne. His names İsa (Jesus) and Necati (who escaped from danger

Why Born Enslaved! (522 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Why Born Enslaved? or Why Born a Slave? (French: Pourquoi! Naitre esclave? or La Negresse) is a life-sized bust by the French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

Antoine Graves (217 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

refusal. His wife Catherine Webb was the daughter of Sinai Calhoun Webb, born a slave in 1830 and the biracial daughter of prominent Southern politician and

1827 (2,377 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the constitution in the capital of each district, no one shall be born a slave in the state, and after six months the introduction of slaves under any

Jeremiah J. Hamilton (248 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

founder, carpenter, political organizer, and legislator in Texas. He was born a slave July 1, 1838 in Tennessee then taken to Texas in 1847. He served as the

Israel Jefferson (2,579 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Jefferson (1800 – c. 1879), known as Israel Gillette before 1844, was born a slave at Monticello, the plantation estate of Thomas Jefferson, third President

Carl R. Polk (159 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1841–1926) was a farmer, state legislator, and judge in Arkansas. He was born a slave in Arkansas. He represented Jefferson County, Arkansas, in the Arkansas

George French Ecton (414 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and the second African American state legislator in Illinois. He was born a slave in Winchester, Kentucky, in about 1846 to Antonio Ecton and Martha George

Underground to Canada (887 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Railroad. The novel is studied in many Canadian schools. Julilly was born a slave on the Hensen Cotton Plantation in Virginia. Her initial happy life was

Scipio Jasper (153 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and lived in Ocala, Florida during the Reconstruction era. Jasper was born a slave in South Carolina. He served in the Florida House in 1872 and 1873. African-American

Belt-Gaskin House (384 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

pastor of the Thomson AME Zion Church, Reverend John Thomas, who had been born a slave in Virginia in 1814, was a boarder at the house when he died in 1894

Benjamin Chiles (54 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Mississippi. He represented Oktibbeha County from 1874 to 1878. He was born a slave in South Carolina and relocated to Mississippi in 1837, with John M.

Huston J. Lomax (171 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was prevented from taking office. Described as a mulatto, Lomax was born a slave in South Carolina in 1832. In addition to his political career, he worked

History of slavery in Colorado (2,286 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

slavery, and became a successful businessman in Denver. John Taylor, born a slave in Kentucky, served in the army during the Civil War and afterward to

1854 in the United States (1,339 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(born 1797) Full date unknown – Henry Bibb, author and abolitionist, born a slave (born 1815) Timeline of United States history (1820–1859) Today in History:

Greater Khorasan (4,133 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

believe Abu Muslim was probably Persian. It's possible he may have been born a slave. According to the Ancient Persian historian Al-Shahrastani, he was a

Bob Mants (1,387 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Voices of Freedom: Bob Mants on Vimeo. "My maternal grandfather ... was born a slave, had witnessed slavery, and he had also witnessed freedom. The notion

Nimrod Ross House (147 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and Ellen Ross from 1904 to 1917. Nimrod Ross was a freedman, who was born a slave in Tennessee in 1863 and became one of the first African-American police

Robertson Family Farm (134 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

family for over 100 years. It was started by Crawford Robertson who was born a slave in Arkansas; it was operated in 2007 by grandson Evelyn Robertson with

R.A. Clement School (217 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

building was built in 1929 as a Rosenwald school. Rufus Alexander Clement, born a slave in 1847, helped to get the school built along with his wife Emma. Four

Weems (305 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Weems may refer to: People: Anna Maria Weems (c. 1840–after 1863), born a slave in Maryland, escaped to British North America disguised as a coachman

Carriacou (1,569 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(1804-1887), born in Carriacou, only known person buried in Edinburgh who was born a slave Carriacou and the Big Drum are featured in Paule Marshall's novel Praisesong

Thomas Bayne (Sam Nixon) (1,450 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

known as "Sam Nixon") was an African American Republican politician. Born a slave, he became a dental assistant and Underground Railroad conductor in Norfolk

Easton, Maryland (2,922 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

erected a statue of Frederick Douglass, the noted abolitionist, who was born a slave in 1818 at the Wye River plantation in northern Talbot County. In 2015

Cephas L. Davis (373 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Virginia Senate after the Reconstruction era, from 1879 - 1880. He was born a slave to Cephas Davis and Annie "Frances" Davis around November 1839 in Christiansville

Brent Woods (506 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States. Woods was born a slave in Pulaski County, Kentucky and freed at the age of 8. He joined the

John Wayles Jefferson (1,263 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and half-sister to his late wife. John's father, Eston Hemings, was born a slave at Monticello in 1808, the youngest of Sally Hemings' six mixed-race

Leeds, Alabama (1,990 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Garst speculates that John Henry may have been a man named Henry who was born a slave to P.A.L. Dabney, the father of the chief engineer of that railroad,

Wyatt Outlaw (777 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

North Carolina. Sources conflict on the question of whether Outlaw was born a slave or a free person of color. Outlaw is probably the same person enlisted

Prince Edward County, Virginia (3,040 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Bruce, the first black, full-term US Senator (1875 to 1881), Republican, born a slave in Prince Edward County. Charles S. Venable, Confederate Army officer

Briar Street Theatre (1,438 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the daughters of the first African-American Episcopal bishop, who was born a slave, and a woman with an inter-racial background. With the support of each

Hoosier (2,541 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

century as part of the Second Great Awakening. "Black Harry" had been born a slave in North Carolina and sold north to Baltimore, Maryland, before gaining

Isaac M. Burgan (640 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Isaac M. Burgan was born a slave October 6, 1848 in McDowell County, North Carolina near Marion to a slave, Sylva Burgan. Held in slavery until the end

William D. Coleman (politician) (746 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

James Cheeseman died in office. Of mixed-race background, Coleman was born a slave in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1842. He emigrated to Liberia with his

Francis Barber (1,648 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Johnson's life in the years before Boswell himself knew Johnson. Barber was born a slave in Jamaica on a sugarcane plantation belonging to the Bathurst family

Death midwife (2,161 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

meaning was changed. The definition in its original language means, "born a slave." These particular slaves were household slaves who tended to the very

Pitts-Inge (442 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

it to George Pinkney Inge for $3,000 in February 1890. Inge had been born a slave. He worked as a school teacher in Charlottesville, but opened the building

Jude–Crutcher House (427 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

stayed in the family until 1883. In 1906 David Crutcher, who had been born a slave on an adjacent plantation in 1851, purchased the house and 154 acres

Pedro Camejo (267 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the only black officer in the army of Simón Bolívar. Pedro Camejo was born a slave, property of a Spanish royalist Vincente Alonzo on March 30, 1790, in

Lunsford Lane (1,508 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2019-05-21 at the Wayback Machine Shaffer, Josh (December 24, 2018). "Born a slave, Lunsford Lane bought his freedom. Now North Carolina is honoring him"

Epictetus (4,604 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The year of his birth is uncertain. He was born a slave. We do know that he was born early enough to be teaching philosophy by

Makli Necropolis (1,633 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Rajasthani fort, and was built after his death in 1521 Darya Khan had been born a slave, but rose to prominence as a general after defeating an Arghun army in

William C. Goodridge (3,033 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Black American abolitionist and a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Born a slave, Goodridge and his wife, Evalina Wallace Goodridge, started with a barbershop

Thomas L. Jennings (968 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in New York City. He later married a woman named Elizabeth, who was born a slave in Delaware in 1798 and died in March 5, 1873. Under New York's gradual

Amir ibn Fuhayra (529 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

He was also known by the kunya Abū ʿAmr. Of African ancestry, he was born a slave in the possession of the Azd tribe. Later he was owned by Al-Tufayl ibn

First African Baptist Church (Richmond, Virginia) (1,323 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

serve as senior minister was James Holmes, a longtime deacon who was born a slave. Lucy Goode Brooks Harriette Estelle Harris Presley Leveen, Lois (24

Troy Porter (560 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Kentucky April 15, 1855. His parents were Winnie Porter, who had been born a slave, and a man whose name may have been Troy or John Porter. The elder Porter

Cincinnati riots of 1841 (1,693 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

elected Major J. Wilkerson, a mulatto, as their leader. Wilkerson had been born a slave in Virginia in 1813 and had purchased his freedom, becoming an elder

St. Augustine, Florida (9,640 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

privateer and pirate captain Earl Cunningham, artist Alexander Darnes, born a slave, became a well-known physician Edmund Jackson Davis, governor of Texas

Nancy Green (1,474 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

first (Black) corporate models in the United States. Nancy Green was born a slave in Montgomery County, Kentucky. Turley, Alicestyne (June 25, 2020). "The

Slavery (27,699 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

some became tied to the very parcel of land into which they had been born a slave having little freedom or economic opportunity because of Jim Crow laws

Whydah Gally (3,657 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Man Who Brought The Men Who Brought Them Down. "The Slave Ship Whydah: Born a Slave Ship". The Field Museum. Chicago, Illinois. 2009. Retrieved 12 October

John O. Crosby (674 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina. John O. Crosby was born a slave in Crosbyville, Fairfield County, South Carolina, on December 22, 1850

Sol Butler (1,318 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ben and Mary Butler. His father was from Morgan County, Alabama, and born a slave in 1842; his mother was born in Georgia in 1867. His father fought in

Quintus Roscius Gallus (767 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to me more handsome than a god.—Quintus Lutatius Catulus Roscius was born a slave in Lanuvium, about 3 miles (4.8 km) from Rome. Later he would encourage

Pea Island Life-Saving Station (2,444 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Etheridge (WPC-1102), was commissioned in his honor. Richard Etheridge was born a slave on January 16, 1842, the son and the property of John B. Etheridge, on

Afro-Venezuelans (4,022 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

whose christened name was Jose Eduardo de la Luz Perera, was initially born a slave in London, was sold to a ship captain, and took a number of trips before

Dred Scott v. Sandford (9,794 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

itself, eventually came to a head in the Dred Scott case. Dred Scott was born a slave in Virginia around 1799. Little is known of his early years. His owner

Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey (1,995 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Morristown National Historical Park. Phebe Ann Jacobs (1785–1850) was "born a slave" on the Beverwyck plantation. As a child, she was "given to" Maria Malleville

Marian Anderson (6,638 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

father's parents, Benjamin and Isabella Anderson. Her grandfather had been born a slave and was emancipated in the 1860s. He relocated to South Philadelphia

The McMasters (289 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1969). "Making a western with overtones of now: 'Kind of frightening' Born a slave". The Christian Science Monitor. p. 4. Kilday, Gregg (September 1, 1970)

John Brown (abolitionist) (24,130 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

American infantry group during the Civil War. Dangerfield Newby, 44, born a slave, escaped slavery, returned to Virginia to fight in the raid, where he

Greenwood Cemetery (Nashville, Tennessee) (393 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

local pastor and businessman Preston Taylor in 1888. Taylor had been born a slave in Louisiana in 1849. He settled in Nashville in 1884, where he became

Mary Fields (1,416 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Montana native Gary Cooper wrote an article for EBONY in which he wrote, "Born a slave somewhere in Tennessee, Mary lived to become one of the freest souls

Robert James Harlan (3,185 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

activist and politician in Cincinnati, Ohio in the 1870s-1890s. He was born a slave but was allowed free movement and employment on the plantation of Kentucky

Westlake Corner, Virginia (691 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the tobacco farm where the African American educator and leader was born a slave, is in the western part of the CDP. In the 1940s and 1950s, the town

Boston University (18,184 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

States to earn an MD John W. Bowen (STH 1885, STH 1887) – first person born a slave to earn a Ph.D. and the second African American With over 342,000 alumni

Coretta Scott King (15,465 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(1863–1950) – both were of African-American and Irish descent. Mollie was born a slave to plantation owners Jim Blackburn and Adeline (Blackburn) Smith. Coretta's

Demolished public housing projects in Atlanta (2,790 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

demolished in 2010. The project was named for Alonzo F. Herndon, who was born a slave, and through founding the Atlanta Life Insurance Company became Atlanta's

Maroons (10,045 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

whose christened name was Jose Eduardo de la Luz Perera, was initially born a slave in London, sold to a ship captain, and took a number of trips before

Notebook of William Blake (1,869 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

bathed my infant limbs The Ohio shall wash his stains from me I was born a slave but I go to be free ✶✶✶ Silent Silent Night Quench the holy light Of

Catherine Ferguson (67 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Public School Catherine Ferguson (educator), American educator who was born a slave Cathy Ferguson, American swimmer Kate Lee Ferguson, American writer Kit

Moses Roper (3,140 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

2022.2027656. ISSN 0144-039X. S2CID 246664724. Taylor, Yuval, I was Born A Slave: An Anthology of Classic Slave Narratives: Vol 1 1770-1849 (Edinburgh:

Elizabeth Freeman (2,825 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of MUMBET died Dec. 28th 1829. Her supposed age was 85 Years. She was born a slave and remained a slave for nearly thirty years; She could neither read

Colfax massacre (5,680 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

help control the violence there and in other Red River parishes. Ward, born a slave in 1840 in Charleston, South Carolina, had learned to read and write

Barbara Hambly (1,983 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Orleans had a large and prosperous population of free people of color. Born a slave, as his mother was enslaved, January was freed as a young child by his

Moses Grandy (2,551 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

University Press; 2011. ISBN 0-253-22264-8. p. 103. Yuval Taylor. I Was Born a Slave: An Anthology of Classic Slave Narratives. Chicago Review Press; 1 March

William L. Patterson (1,057 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in the British West Indies. His mother, Mary Galt Patterson, had been born a slave in the state of Virginia and was the daughter of the organizer of a volunteer

Lucie Blackburn (993 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and helped him establish the first taxi company in Toronto. Lucie was born a slave in Louisville, Kentucky, then known as "Ruthie," "Ruth," or "Rutha."

History of Tallahassee, Florida (6,952 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

principal was John G. Riley (see John Gilmore Riley House), who had been born a slave, and who was head of the local chapter of the National Association for

Thea Bowman (2,574 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Mississippi, in 1937. Her paternal grandfather (Edward Bowman) had been born a slave, but her father (Theon Edward Bowman) was a physician and her mother

Anne Spencer (2,573 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

worked on a plantation after their marriage. Although her father Joel was born a slave in 1862, Anne's parents were part of the first generation of African

Seguin, Texas (7,790 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Jones, MLB player for the Philadelphia Phillies, 1964–2006 J. R. E. Lee, born a slave, 20 years president historically black Florida A&M, 1864–1944 Joel Nestali

Lucy Parsons (6,328 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

American Radical, social historian Jacqueline Jones states that Parsons was born a slave in Virginia and in 1863 at the age of 12 was brought to McLennan County

Terry Adkins (1,817 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Nouveau Réaliste, and the American George Washington Carver, who was born a slave but went on to become a renowned agricultural chemist, inventor and educator

List of slaves (22,155 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Jefferson. Henry Bibb (1815–1854), American author and abolitionist who was born a slave. After escaping from slavery to British Upper Canada, he founded an abolitionist

Benjamin Bradley (inventor) (895 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

written about him with the incorrect surname. Benjamin Boardley was born a slave in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, in March 1830. It has been theorized

Priscus (gladiator) (635 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

their skills through the gladiatorial process; Priscus from Gaul was born a slave and Verus was born free. Verus is predominantly known because of his

Stephen H. Gloucester (552 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Gloucester was one of the four sons of John Gloucester. Stephen was born a slave in Tennessee, his father paid $400 ($5,813 in 2023) for Stephen's freedom

Theophile T. Allain (828 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

wealthiest black person in Louisiana. Theophile Terrence Allain was born a slave on October 1, 1846 on the Australian Plantation, West Baton Rouge Parish

Anthony Bowen (553 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Bowen Elementary School in Washington, D.C., are named in his honor. Born a slave on October 8, 1809, in Prince George's County, MD, on the estate of William

Kathy Barnette (1,846 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the state, in a house where her great-great-great-grandmother, who was born a slave, formerly lived. She received an undergraduate degree in finance from

List of slave owners (13,589 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(1718–1783), free person of color and hotelier on Jamaica, possibly born a slave, and later a slave owner herself. Isaac Ross (1760–1836), Mississippi

Rex McDonald (553 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Later on he was trained and shown by Tom Bass, a notable horse trainer born a slave, who trained horses for Theodore Roosevelt and Bill Cody. In 1893 Rex

Abraham Lincoln and slavery (15,834 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Illinois; one of his long-time neighbors, Jameson Jenkins (who may have been born a slave), had come from North Carolina and was publicly implicated in the 1850s

Persian miniature (8,771 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

any background might be recruited; at least one notable painter was born a slave. There were some highly placed amateur artists, including Shah Tahmasp

William H. Bell (servant) (1,389 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

to practice law. William H. Bell was an African American man likely born a slave around 1845. He did not know his actual age. He estimated himself to

William Gaston Pearson (514 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

an American educator and businessman in North Carolina. Pearson was born a slave in Durham County on April 11, 1859 to Cynthia Anne Pearson (née Barbee)

Black British people (23,294 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and Quobna Ottobah Cugoano. Mixed race Dido Elizabeth Belle who was born a slave in the Caribbean moved to Britain with her white father in the 1760s

African-American literature (12,090 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs (1861). Jacobs (1813–1897) was born a slave in Edenton, North Carolina and was the first woman to author a slave

Polly Berry (3,448 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

different accounts of Polly's life before Lucy was born. Polly Wash was born a slave of the Beatty family of Wayne County, Kentucky around 1803 or 1805. She

Pike Road High School (460 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was founded in 1893 by Georgia Washington (1851-1952), a woman who was born a slave in Virginia; she was sold along with her mother, away from her father

Ophelia Clenlans (494 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

civil rights activist and journalist from Omaha, Nebraska. Clenlans was born a slave in about 1841 in Platte County, Missouri, and came to Omaha. Clenlans

Harold Washington (7,426 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

known ancestor of Harold Lee Washington, Isam/Isham Washington, was born a slave in 1832 in North Carolina. In 1864, he enlisted in the 8th United States

Shelby Steele (1,544 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

attended an all-black elementary school. His paternal grandfather was born a slave in Kentucky. His twin brother is Claude Steele, a professor emeritus

William Hooper Councill (1,244 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University in Normal, Alabama. He was born a slave in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on July 12, 1848, to William and Mary

Samuel Walker Houston (930 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

February 12, 1864, Samuel Walker Houston was a Texas Education pioneer. Born a slave in Huntsville, Texas. Houston's father was Joshua Houston, and his mother

Killing the Black Body (989 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

children for profit. The book details the life of Anna J. Cooper, who was born a slave and became an academic and an activist. Roberts also details the alliance

Emma J. Ray (1,586 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Methodist History. ISSN 0026-1238. McConaghy, Lorraine. "Best of 2016: Born a slave, Emma Ray was the saint of Seattle's slums | Crosscut". crosscut.com

Lucy A. Delaney (4,160 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

St. Louis, Missouri around 1828 and 1830. Her mother, Polly Berry was born a slave in Kentucky around 1803 or 1805. In October 1817, when Polly was about

Eugene Rivers (808 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

World War II. Mose Rivers, the paternal great-grandfather of Eugene, was born a slave. GTA Faith Alliance The Toronto Rap Project O'Brien, Keith (2008-06-21)

Moses Rodgers House (255 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

home with his wife, Sara, and five daughters until his death in 1900. Born a slave in Missouri, he participated in the California Gold Rush and earned a

John Watson (Virginia politician) (218 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

nineteenth-century African-American politician from Virginia. Watson was born a slave in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. As an adult following the American Civil

Tom Bass (horse trainer) (927 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

burned by a 19-year-old arsonist on August 28, 1997. While Bass was born a slave, the 13th Amendment ended slavery in America Hays, Christopher K. (1999)

Slavery in ancient Rome (45,876 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of nations (ius gentium), the child of a legally enslaved mother was born a slave. The Latin word for a slave born within the familia of a household (domus)

Joseph H. Rainey House (607 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1984. Rainey, born a slave in 1832 in Georgetown, was freed by his parents. They had been enslaved

Marshall L. Shepard (1,512 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

son of Robert Shepard and Pattie Gilliam Shepard. Robert Shepard was born a slave and later became a Baptist minister and the superintendent of the Colored

John C. Dancy (1,182 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

influence of his ally, Booker T. Washington. John Campbell Dancy was born a slave in Tarboro, North Carolina, on May 8, 1857. His father was also named

Somerset v Stewart (5,856 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

case on the same question, Jean Boucaux v Verdelin of 1738. Boucaux was born a slave in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti). He was brought by

George William Gordon (1,682 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

teaching himself to read, write, and perform simple accounting. He was born a slave. His father gave him his freedom and at the age of ten, he was allowed

Thomas Dalton (abolitionist) (3,104 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Revolutionary War soldier and a musician. Her mother Dinah Bowman (1744–1837), born a slave, was of mixed-race and described as fair-skinned. About 1766, Brazillai

Green Flake (1,052 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Morris. Green and Martha had two children together. Green Flake was born a slave on the Jordan Flake Plantation in Anson County, North Carolina. James

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (1,551 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

members also inspired her. Her great-grandfather, Albert Royal Brooks, was born a slave in Virginia in 1817, and after the American Civil War then began to serve

The General in His Labyrinth (7,202 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

confidante, the person best able to read his moods and share in his emotions. Born a slave, the character is six years younger than the General, and has spent his

Lucy Wilmot Smith (906 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Kentucky, the daughter of Margaret Smith. Though it is unclear if she was born a slave, her household was poor. Smith's education was provided for by her mother

History of slavery in Virginia (14,040 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Virginia House of Burgesses passed a law that said a child was born a slave if the mother was a slave, based on partus sequitur ventrem. Specifically

Corrvine Patterson (296 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the African American community in Wyandotte County. Patterson was born a slave in Howard County, Missouri. His mother was Lettie Patterson. He was self-educated

Dock J. Jordan (1,523 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Giles Dolphus Jordan and Julia Elmira White Jordan. Giles Jordan was born a slave in 1840 in South Carolina and died in 1898 in Early County, Georgia.

Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials (31,415 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Council voted unanimously to rename the street for William Holland, born a slave, an educator who served one term in the Texas Legislature and became

Pancho Fierro (484 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

his birth, following a rule that said no son of a Spaniard could be born a slave, but was raised by his mother's family. There is no record of him receiving

Inman E. Page (1,475 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the first black students at Brown University. Inman Edward Page was born a slave in Warrenton, Virginia, on December 29, 1853, to Horace and Elizabeth

Nathaniel Booth (slave) (616 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

was an African American who escaped from slavery. Nathaniel Booth was born a slave on a Virginia plantation in February 1826. At the age of 17 Booth escaped

John Carruthers Stanly (2,027 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Carolina and the wealthiest free black resident. Even though he himself was born a slave, Stanly had used his intelligence and family ties to become a successful

Raymond Pace Alexander (4,322 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

segregation system in place there. His father, Hillard Boone Alexander, was born a slave in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, and was the son of the plantation owner

Murals of York, Pennsylvania (2,932 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Railroad, William C. Goodridge helped freedom seekers escape slavery. Born a slave in Baltimore, Maryland, he became a successful businessman and entrepreneur

Isaac Lane (420 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Lane was born March 4, 1834, in Madison County, Tennessee. Lane was born a slave on the plantation of Cullen Lane. At age nineteen Lane married Frances

Stentorians (3,778 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

part of firehouse life. On December 6, 1888, a black man, Sam Haskins, born a slave in 1840 from Virginia, was listed in the census as an employed fireman

Decolonization of the Americas (8,229 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

allegedly inspired by the revolution in Haiti. Toussaint L'Ouverture was born a slave in Saint-Domingue where he developed labor skills that would give him

List of Irish Americans (10,157 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Healy – Bishop of Portland, America's first African-American bishop; born a slave according to the laws of Georgia to an Irish immigrant and his beloved

Jordan R. Stewart (542 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Louisiana State Senate during the Reconstruction era. Stewart was born a slave in Louisiana in about 1845. He served in the American Civil War as a

Christopher Rush (bishop) (236 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Craven County, North Carolina, in 1777, was a full-blooded African, and born a slave. He went to New York in 1798, and was subsequently freed. He was licensed

Dunleith (666 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

breakfast, lunch and dinner. Among its notable occupants was John Roy Lynch, born a slave at Tacony Plantation in Louisiana and self-educated, who would go on

Calvin Brent (1,152 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ellis Stowe, the husband of Harriet Beecher Stowe. His father had been born a slave but had earned enough money to buy his freedom and obtained a government

Benjamin January mysteries (2,772 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

land owner. She is half-white, and extremely status-conscious. She was born a slave. Her placée protector paid for her freedom and that of her children.

William H. McAlpine (1,017 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ebony and Jet magazines. Another prominent McAlpine, R. B. McAlpine, was born a slave on January 25, 1848, in Coosa County and served many years at the Tuskegee

John Mitchell Jr. (1,624 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

unsuccessfully as a Republican Party candidate for governor in 1921. Mitchell was born a slave in Richmond, Virginia in 1863, shortly before the end of the American

Zahr al-Riyad (545 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was reportedly a Nasrid princess, it is not likely Zahr al-Riyad was born a slave, providing the Nasrid princess was her biological mother, since a Muslim

Peter G. Morgan (politician) (516 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

African-American politician from Virginia. Of mixed race, Morgan was born a slave in Nottoway County, Virginia, and learned to work with leather. A self-taught

Robert Bruce Smith IV (1,134 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

successful business man. William Johnson was a free man of color (although born a slave) in a town cosmopolitan enough to admire his business ability and integrity

Mary Frances Gunner (701 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Empire State Federation of Women's Clubs. Her grandfather William Savery, born a slave, was a founder of Talladega College. She finished at Suffern High School

Wilson Brown (Medal of Honor) (942 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

America's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor. Brown was born a slave in about 1841 in Natchez, Mississippi on Botany Bay Plantation. He was

R. F. Hardin High School (587 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the school recruited Rufus F. Hardin to come teach. Hardin had been born a slave in 1859, and graduated from Prairie View Normal Institute as well as

James C. Farley (558 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

nationally recognized African-American photographer. James Conway Farley was born a slave in Prince Edward County, Virginia, on August 10, 1854. Both of his parents

Lydia Flood Jackson (1,261 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

married Flood's father, Isaac Flood. Flood's father Isaac Flood was born a slave in South Carolina in 1816. He bought his freedom and moved west to California

Kingsley Plantation (6,512 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Esther Bartley, born a slave on the plantation, shown living on the grounds in the early 20th century

Delilah Beasley (2,716 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

State Historic Park. Beasley wrote, "The late Colonel Allensworth was born a slave, and yet there are few, if any, who have made more out of life and done

Joseph Godfrey (607 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was the only African-American combatant of the war. Joseph Godfrey was born a slave in about 1835 in Mendota, Minnesota. He was the son of a French Canadian

Antinous Farnese (1,280 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hadrian's favorite, or more affectionately Hadrian's boyfriend, Antinous was born a slave in Bithynium 110 CE and is speculated to have drowned in the river Nile

Dresden, Ontario (12,975 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Josiah Henson (1789–1883) was an author, abolitionist, and minister. Born a slave, he escaped to Upper Canada (now Ontario), and, near Dresden, founded

Sam Houston and slavery (7,958 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

headstone reads, Aunt "Eliza Faithful unto Death". Jeff Hamilton was born a slave on April 16, 1840, on the Singleton Gibson Plantation in the Jones community

Black Catholicism (13,226 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1889—produced the nation's first openly-Black Catholic priest, Augustus Tolton. Born a slave in Ralls County, he, his siblings and his mother found freedom in Illinois;

Lewis and Lucretia Taylor House (421 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Leon County family. She was a master cook and seamstress. Taylor was born a slave on May 19, 1865 in Tallahassee, a day before the Emancipation Proclamation

William N. Stevens (459 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

he was joined in the Virginia Senate by Joseph P. Evans, who had been born a slave in Dinwiddie County, then won elected to the House of Delegates in 1871

Robert Reed Church (1,779 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

bankruptcy after it was reduced to a Taxing District. Robert Reed Church was born a slave in 1839 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, as the son of Emmeline, a black

James B. Fields (470 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in opposition to agnostic, Robert G. Ingersoll. James B. Fields was born a slave on March 1, 1850, in Prairieville, Missouri. His parents were Henry and

Lucie Johnson Scruggs (438 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

A. Scruggs. Lucie Johnson was the youngest of four children, and was born a slave in Richmond, Virginia, October 14, 1864. She was partly of Native American

Carver: A Life in Poems (804 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Washington Carver. Carver was an American inventor and educator; he was first born a slave in Diamond, Missouri, in about 1864. He lived with many struggles growing

Raymond Lane Jr. (365 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

swamp, terrain typical of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, where Tubman was born a slave in about 1822. The inspiration for this series came from Lane's visit

2nd Missouri Colored Infantry Regiment (713 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the last black member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He had been born a slave, ran away, becoming a drummer boy for Company C, 65th US Colored Infantry

Joseph Endom Jones (676 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Jones, was a leader in the National Urban League. Joseph E. Jones was born a slave in Lynchburg, Virginia, on October 15, 1852. At the age of six he started

W. H. C. Stephenson (1,190 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was a prominent Republican and activist in the city. Stephenson was born a slave in Washington, D.C. in about 1825. and trained at one of the Eclectic

Decatur Dorsey (915 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Troops and served through the last year of the war. Decatur Dorsey was born a slave in about 1836 in what is now Howard County, Maryland. Dorsey, who was

John Gilmore Riley House (808 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

prominent member of the African-American community in Tallahassee. He was born a slave in Tallahassee on September 24, 1857. When slavery ended, Riley pursued

Lyles Station, Indiana (3,360 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Joshua Lyles assert, without any evidentiary verification, that he was born a slave and freed when he was twenty-eight years old. More recent scholarship

Eleanor Barrow Chase (1,332 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Whitworth College. Eleanor's grandfather, Peter Barnabas Barrow, was born a slave in Virginia. He fled to freedom and "fought for the Union army as they

Caesar (slave) (417 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Caesar: A slave. A note included with the portrait reads: "Ceasar [sic], born a slave of Van R. Nicoll, son of William, in 1737 at Bethlehem, N.Y., where he

Bartlett Taylor (739 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(1861–1865), in which position he founded many churches. Bartlett Taylor was born a slave in Henderson County, Kentucky on February 14, 1815. His father was Jonathan

The Claidi Journals (4,447 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hulta man), half-brother of Venarion, and husband of Claidi. Claidi – Born a slave of the House, Claidi was used to replace Twilight Star's baby to help

Peter Still (517 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

which his biographer Kate E. R. Pickard published in 1856. Still was born a slave to parents Sidney and Levin (formerly Steel) on a plantation owned by

William H. Ash (346 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Virginia General Assembly during the Reconstruction Era. Ash was born a slave on May 15, 1859, in Loudoun County, Virginia. He attended the Hampton

History of Charleston, South Carolina (6,300 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Company Jehu Jones Hotel: Jones was a Lutheran minister who had been born a slave PFC Ralph H. Johnson (1949–1968): posthumously awarded Medal of Honor

Locker High School (208 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

renamed W.P. Locker High School in 1959 in honor of W.P. Locker, who was born a slave in 1854 in North Carolina, and later became an educator. Although it

Eagles of the Empire (2,988 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Freedman (former slave) in direct service of Emperor Claudius. Being born a slave himself, and the property of the state, he was given an opportunity by

Domingo Sosa (769 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

He was the first Afro-Argentine to be elected to such high offices. Born a slave, Sosa had no education, though he subsequently managed to learn to read

History of slavery in Maryland (7,400 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

abolition and lectured widely about the abuses of slavery. Douglass was born a slave in Talbot County, Maryland, between Hillsboro and Cordova, probably in

Henry Jackson Lewis (1,249 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

African-American political cartoonist. Henry Jackson Lewis, "H.J.", was born a slave, around 1857, near Water Valley, the seat of Yalobusha County, Mississippi

Melissa Freeman (455 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

physician based at the Beth Israel Medical Center. Freeman's grandfather was born a slave in the 1850s, and was a teenager when the Emancipation Proclamation was

Charles H. Parrish (985 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

son, Charles H. Parrish Jr., were also noted educators. Parrish was born a slave in Lexington, Kentucky on April 18, 1859. His parents, Hiram and Harriet

Robert Pinn (1,065 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

[citation needed] His father was from Fauquier County, Virginia, and was born a slave. His mother was of English ancestry and was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania

Bill Traylor (3,028 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Advertiser published an article entitled "The Enigma of Uncle Bill Traylor: Born A Slave, Untutored in Art, His Paintings Are Reminiscent of Cave Pictures – And

Ada Copeland King (582 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Deception Across the Color Line by Martha Sandweiss. Copeland was presumed born a slave on or around 23 December 1860, in Georgia. As a young woman, she moved

Mary Ellen Pleasant (5,827 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and a wealthy planter from Virginia. There are reports that she was born a slave from 1814 to 1817 in Georgia, one account stating that she was born in

Richard R. Jones (399 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

for the church building and parsonage, and became its first pastor. "Born a slave in 1853, Reverend Richard R. Jones came to Roanoke in 1882 to head First

Anton de Kom (1,838 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Suriname, to farmer Adolf de Kom and Judith Jacoba Dulder. His father was born a slave. De Kom finished primary and secondary school and obtained a diploma

Randal B. Vandavall (851 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

helped found Roger Williams University. Randal Bartholomew Vandervall was born a slave on March 23, 1832. He was born near Neely's Bend in Tennessee about ten

Ross Hamilton (866 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

legislative career of any African American in 19th century Virginia. Born a slave in Mecklenburg County, Virginia in about 1843, the names of his parents

Nance Legins-Costley (808 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

hosting the Illinois Territorial General Assembly. Ironically, Nance was born a slave in the capital of a supposed free territory. Nance was an African-American

List of The Originals characters (24,750 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

character who appears in the backdoor pilot of The Originals. Marcel was born a slave and the bastard son of a plantation owner during the 1800s. Klaus rescued

Matthew Campbell (minister) (767 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

leader and helped organize a number of churches. Matthew Campbell was born a slave to Jackson and Lucy Campbell on September 1, 1823, in Madison County

Ioana Rudăreasa (726 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to Romani slaves of the state. Rudăreasa claimed that because she was born a slave of the state, the law granted freedom to her and her six children. However

Alfred Rush (927 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(1861–1865). He was ambushed and murdered on May 13, 1876. Alfred Rush was born a slave of mixed-race heritage near Ebenezer, South Carolina to the Gee family

Daniel J. Sanders (220 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

African-American president of a four-year college in the southern U.S. Sanders was born a slave in Winnsboro, South Carolina on February 15, 1847. Sanders attended Brainerd

Levi Miller (Virginia soldier) (1,058 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

man who served as a soldier in the Confederate Army. Levi Miller was born a slave on January 9, 1836, in Rockbridge County, Virginia near Hayes Creek and

Elijah P. Marrs (1,345 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Simmons College of Kentucky in Louisville in 1879. Elijah P. Marrs was born a slave in January 1840 in Shelby County, Kentucky to Andrews and Frances Marrs

Donna Franklin (1,248 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

about 1864. Her paternal great-grandmother, Sabra Ann Hardison, was born a slave in the township of Jamesville, North Carolina, around the beginning of

John Patterson Sampson (401 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Franconia, and Susan. James, who had both Scottish and African ancestry, was born a slave, and became a successful carpenter after being freed, establishing his

John R. Scott Sr. (369 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Edward Waters College Personal details Born 1840-41 (estimated) Virginia (born a slave) Died February 18, 1929 Jacksonville, Florida Buried Memorial Cemetery

Romulus Moore (864 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Rev. Romulus Moore was born a slave in Taliaferro County, Georgia, in January 1818. He was reared in the

Pyrrhus Concer (505 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

written by Elihu Root, is in Southampton's North End Graveyard: "Though born a slave, he possessed those virtues, without which kings are but slaves." Van

Stephen Myers (abolitionist) (507 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

was inducted to the National Abolition Hall of Fame. Stephen Myers was born a slave in Hoosick, New York, around the year 1800. At the age of 18, he was

Samuel C. Watson (1,200 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Republican to the Democratic party in the mid-1880s. Samuel C. Watson was born a slave in about 1832 in St. James Parish, South Carolina. When he was nine years

Carusu (1,587 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sulfur mines prompted Booker T. Washington − himself an African-American born a slave – to write in 1910: "I am not prepared just now to say to what extent

Walltown, Durham, North Carolina (1,417 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

custodian at Trinity College (later renamed Duke University). Wall, born a slave to the grandfather of a Trinity College physics professor, worked as

Josiah T. Settle (1,632 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

years before turning to private practice. Josiah "Joe" Thomas Settle was born a slave in the Cumberland Mountains of East Tennessee or North Carolina on September

July 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) (2,533 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

of the work called The Shepherd. If so, Pius, like his brother, was born a slave. He opposed the Gnostics, notably the Gnostic Marcion. He may have been

Newell Houston Ensley (836 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Howard University, and Alcorn University. Newell Houston Ensley was born a slave in Nashville, Tennessee on August 23, 1852 to George and Clara Ensley

Zakonopravilo (6,036 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

law of war states that victors rule losers. Also, a person is either born a slave or becomes a slave (in captivity) and all slaves are equal – nobody is

List of museums in Virginia (1,400 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ridge Highlands Biographical Plantation where Booker T. Washington was born a slave Botetourt County Historical Museum Fincastle Botetourt Shenandoah Valley

George Washington Gayles (1,646 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

African American Baptists in Mississippi. George Washington Gayles was born a slave in Wilkinson County, Mississippi on June 29, 1844 to Perry and Rebecca

John Bigelow Jr. (3,025 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Military Academy Bigelow met Henry Ossian Flipper a classmate who had been born a slave. Bigelow faced for the first time the racism then prevailing in America

Rufus L. Perry (1,461 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

William E. Sinn's Park Theatre in New York City. Rufus L. Perry was born a slave on a plantation in Smith County, Tennessee on March 11, 1834 to Lewis

C. C. Vaughn (900 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

African-American beneficial and temperance society. C. C. Vaughn was born a slave December 27, 1846 in Dinwiddie County, Virginia. His first name was given

James H. Holmes (1,076 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of one of the largest churches in the country. James Henry Holmes was born a slave in King and Queen County, Virginia on December 9, 1826 to Dellphia and

Philip H. Murray (1,011 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Pennsylvania in 1842. His parents were Samuel and Sarah Murray. His father was born a slave in Kent County, Maryland, on the Eastern Shore of that state. His mother

James R. Jones (Virginia politician) (917 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Police. Jones was a business partner of Ross Hamilton, who had been born a slave in Mecklenburg County, Virginia and after being freed as a result of

Amos Brown (1,564 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1941. His great-grandfather was born a slave in Franklin County, Mississippi. Brown's father worked as a rural church

History of Virginia on stamps (12,265 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

stamp, the 10-cent Famous American Educators issue of April 7, 1940. Born a slave, when Alabama established Tuskegee Negro Normal Institute (Tuskegee University)

Church of the Wounds of the Seraphic Father Saint Francis (1,911 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Afro-Brazilian architect Joaquim Pinto de Oliveira, known as Tebas, who was born a slave in Santos. The Church of the Wounds of the Seraphic Father Saint Francis

Aleijadinho (12,651 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the baptismal certificate, cited by Bretas, it appears that Antônio, born a slave, was baptized on 29 August 1730, in what was then the town of Vila Rica

John Hudson Riddick (696 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Washington and Delaware Conferences of the church. John Hudson Riddick was born a slave on April 1, 1848, in Sunbury, North Carolina. He was owned by Rev. Isaac

Nannette Stafford (1,926 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Nannette (or as she later became known, Nancy or Nannie) Stafford was born a slave on Cumberland Island, GA on June 20, 1853. Her father, Robert Stafford

Silas X. Floyd (1,435 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

David Floyd was born in 1829 in Sandersville, Georgia. He was likely born a slave and married a woman named Sarah Jane and had seven children. Silas was

London Bourne (1,125 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

slave who became a wealthy merchant and abolitionist. London Bourne was born a slave in Barbados in 1793. He was the son of William Bourne who had also been

The Holy Thief (5,617 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Pertuis, tall, in his thirties, also of Provence. Daalny: Bondwoman, born a slave in a manor near Gloucester to an Irish woman; sold to Rémy, who treats

Black performance of Jewish music (683 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

father, since the Kaddish is said when mourning a parent, who had been born a slave and was a preacher. "Eli Eli" was also famously covered by artists, such

St. George's United Methodist Church (Philadelphia) (2,970 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

and Absalom Jones, the first black lay preachers in Methodism in 1784. Born a slave, Richard Allen purchased his freedom two years later in 1786, he then

Bethel A.M.E. Church (Morristown, New Jersey) (918 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Street. 1845 – Willis Nazery was Bethel's first pastor of record. He was born a slave in 1803 in Isle of Wight County in Virginia. After ordination as an A

Nineteenth Street Baptist Church (Washington, D.C.) (2,709 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

reputation as an advocate for education, racial equality, and temperance. Born a slave in Richmond, Virginia, to Albert Royal Brooks and Lucy Goode Brooks,

Hurley Goodall (7,026 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

brother Robert died during the Korean War. His grandmother had been born a slave in 1862. He graduated from Muncie Central High School in 1945, and served

List of big-game hunters (17,013 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a onetime slave, soldier, cowboy and famed bear hunter. Collier was born a slave of the Hinds family of Mississippi; from a very young age he cared for

P. H. A. Braxton (835 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

civil rights and educational issues. Patrick Henry Alexander Braxton was born a slave in King William County, Virginia on September 22, 1852. His parents,

Spottswood Rice (1,184 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

he founded the first AME church in New Mexico. Spottswood Rice was born a slave in Madison County, Virginia in November 1819. At a very early age his

Henry N. Jeter (1,156 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Movement of Race Relations and Social Service. Henry Norval Jeter was born a slave in Charlotte County, Virginia on October 7, 1851, to Riland and Mary

William Henry Steward (1,944 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Worshipful Master of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky. William Henry Steward was born a slave on July 26, 1847, in Brandenburg, Kentucky. He and his parents were light-skinned

Mausoleum of Shajar al-Durr (2,101 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

‘Ismat al-Dunya wa al-Din ("Virtue of the World and the Religion"). Born a slave of Turkic origins, Shajar al-Durr was given to Sultan al-Salih as a gift

John F. Cook Jr. (2,015 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

African-American families. His father, John F. Cook Sr. (1810-1855), was born a slave in the Washington DC area. At 16 years old, Cook Sr.'s industrious aunt

The Banjo Lesson (4,703 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Pittsburgh in 1859 and grew up in Philadelphia. His mother may have been born a slave in Virginia; his father was a free-born black minister in the African

List of people from Staten Island (11,701 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

heavyweight boxing champion Bill Richmond (1763–1829) – British pugilist; born a slave in colonial Staten Island Kevin Rooney (b. 1956) – former boxer and current

Constant Roux (1,656 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

In 1898, Roux submitted the work "Pourquoi naître esclave" (Why be Born a Slave?) to the Salon des Artistes Français, sending it from Rome, and it was

Emanuel K. Love (2,279 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

black leadership of Baptist institutions, especially schools. Love was born a slave on July 27, 1850 near Marion, Alabama in Perry County. He was largely

Peter Thomas Stanford (1,162 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Congregational Church, August 14, 1898. Davis Square Printing Co. 1898. "WAS BORN A SLAVE: Eventful Career of Rev. Mr. Stanford, the Negro Beecher.”. LCCN 91898129

List of Boston University people (12,994 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1885, STH 1887) – second African American person, and the first person born a slave, to earn a Ph.D. Anna Oliver (STH 1876) – first woman in the United States

Cornelia Bowen (2,394 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

slave, the 1858 date seems implausible, as Cornelia would have been born a slave were she born prior to the Civil War's end. Smith 1996, p. 45. U.S. census

Rebecca Protten (2,717 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

deaconess a few weeks after her wedding. Rebecca Freundlich Protten was born a slave in 1718 in Antigua on the Caribbean island of Antigua and Barbuda. The

Alice Callis Hunter (685 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Columbia League of Women Voters. Hunter's father, Rev. H.J. Callis, was born a slave in Matthews County, VA. Hunter moved to Washington, DC in 1916. Hunter

Flat Rock, Georgia (2,461 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

descendant of early Flat Rock community members Reece Gault and Agnes Waits (born a slave) Warren Moon NFL and CFL football player Direct descendant of Early Flat

Song of the Shank (1,540 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

composer, and performer, who played under the stage name Blind Tom. Born a slave in Columbus, Georgia, in 1849, Tom began giving concert recitals at the

Mary Johnston Rose (479 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

[citation needed] Her early life is not fully documented. Allegedly she was born a slave. Her father was white. Her mother was manumitted with her daughter by

1970 Bhojpur uprising (4,539 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sexual atrocities against the womenfolks of the agricultural labourer. Born a slave, his life is firmly tied to the spade, the sickle and the landlord's

Stephen Bates (sheriff) (1,137 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

Retrieved 2024-01-13. Kale, Wilford (2023-07-07). "Charles City Native, Born a Slave, Will Get Historical Marker". Daily Press. Archived from the original

History of Knoxville, Tennessee (10,791 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

political and economic affairs. Racetrack and saloon owner Cal Johnson, born a slave, was one of the wealthiest African Americans in the state by the time

Selma to Montgomery march campsites (929 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

A. Carson, a member of the Alabama House of Representatives who was born a slave and was one of only three Black delegates to Alabama's 1875 constitutional

Natural person in French law (2,941 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The code explicitly confirmed that the child of a female slave was born a slave. On 4 February 1794, the Convention nationale decreed the abolition of

List of Stockton landmarks (6,014 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

for Missouri native - and African-American - Moses Rogers. Rogers was born a slave, but became a mining engineer and came to California for the Gold Rush

Grand United Order of True Reformers (1,120 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Browne managed the organization up until 1898, whereupon W.L.Taylor, born a slave in Caroline County Virginia and freed while a child after the Civil War

Dunlap, Kansas (2,612 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Benjamin "Pap" Singleton came to town in the spring of 1878. He was born a slave in 1809 in Nashville, Tennessee. At 37, in 1846, he escaped to freedom