African-American farmers

free African American scientist, surveyor, almanac author and farmer (1731–1806)

American politician (1841-1898)

one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic Slave Trade

American politician (1853–1926)

American former slave

American politician (1837-1883)

Redoshi ( 1848 – 1937) was a West African woman who was enslaved and smuggled to the U.S. state of Alabama as a girl in 1860. Until a later surviving claimant, Matilda McCrear, was announced in 2020, she was considered to have been the last surviving victim of the transatlantic slave trade. Taken captive in warfare at age 12 by the West African kingdom of Dahomey, she was sold to Americans and transported by ship to the United States in violation of U.S. law. She was sold again and enslaved on the upcountry plantation of the Washington M. Smith family in Dallas County, Alabama, where her

American football player (born 1983)