Category
page 1Literate American slaves
Frederick Douglass
African-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist (c. 1818–1895)
Booker T. Washington
African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor (1856-1915)
Phillis Wheatley
first African-American poet (1753–1784)

Nat Turner
American slave rebellion leader (1800-1831)
Solomon Northup
free-born African American kidnapped by slave-traders
Harriet Jacobs
American slave, writer, and abolitionist (1815-1897)
Anna J. Cooper
African-American author, educator, speaker and scholar (1858–1964)

Absalom Jones
minister
Denmark Vesey
African-American anti-slavery leader (1767–1822)
George Moses Horton
American writer
Amanda America Dickson
American formerly enslaved person and socialite
Archibald Grimké
American lawyer and diplomat (1849-1930)
Francis James Grimké
American activist and minister