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page 1American freedmen
Booker T. Washington
African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor (1856-1915)
Ida B. Wells
American journalist and civil rights activist (1862–1931)
Dred Scott
African-American plaintiff in freedom suit (c.1799–1858)
Abdul Rahman Ibrahima Sori
American slave
William Dorsey Swann
drag queen
Redoshi
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
Edward A. Johnson
African American politician (1860–1944)