Literate American slaves

African-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist (c. 1818–1895)

African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor (1856-1915)

first African-American poet (1753–1784)

American slave rebellion leader (1800-1831)

free-born African American kidnapped by slave-traders

American slave, writer, and abolitionist (1815-1897)

African-American author, educator, speaker and scholar (1858–1964)

minister

African-American anti-slavery leader (1767–1822)

American writer

American formerly enslaved person and socialite

American lawyer and diplomat (1849-1930)

American activist and minister