Fugitive American slaves

African-American abolitionist (1822–1913)

network of secret routes & safehouses in 19th-century U.S. used by slaves to find freedom

Africans in the Americas and islands of the Indian Ocean who escaped from slavery, through flight or manumission, and lived in independent settlements, were referred to as maroons in English, and as cimarrones in Spanish America. The English word "maroon" likely derives from the Spanish word "cimarron".

thumb|upright|Samuel A. Cartwright (1793–1863) Drapetomania was a proposed mental illness that, in 1851, American physician Samuel A. Cartwright hypothesized as the cause of enslaved Americans fleeing captivity. This hypothesis was based on the belief that slavery was such an improvement upon the lives of slaves that only those suffering from some form of mental illness would wish to escape.

slave ship

Act of the United States Congress

American politician and former slave (1839-1915)

American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian (1814–1884)

American magician, illusionist, actor and former slave

ethnic group

legal case

human settlement

American clergyman and diplomat (1815–1882)

fugitive slaves and slavery abolitionists, from Macon, Georgia

aspect of history

Place in Florida listed on National Register of historic Places

laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850

African American soldiers for the Union in the American Civil War

man enslaved in United States

African-American activist (1809-1879)

American abolitionist, lecturer, businessman and politician (1811-1889)

enslaved African cook held at Mount Vernon

military leader serving the Spanish Crown in 18th-century St. Augustine, Florida

1872 book by William Still

freed slaves working with the Union

Black Seminole war leader and negotiator (1812–1882)