Learn about enslavement, resistance, abolition and the struggle for freedom through biographies and historical records.
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1803–1895
Lucie "Ruthie" Blackburn (1803–1895) was a self-emancipated West-Indian, American former slave who escaped to Canada with her husband Thornton Blackburn and helped him establish the first taxi company in Toronto.
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Lucie Johnson Scruggs (née Johnson; October 14, 1864 - November 24, 1892) was an American educator and writer from Virginia. She was born into slavery and was married to fellow writer Lawson A. Scruggs.
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Lucien Fisher, sometimes spelled Lucian Fisher, was an American politician who served as a state legislator in Florida. He represented Leon County in the Florida House of Representatives. He served in 1875. Lucian Fisher co-signed a letter to the…
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Lucius Baston is an American actor from Queens, New York. He is known for best known for his roles in Atlanta, Lovecraft Country and The Underground Railroad.
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Lucius Wimbush (c. 1839 – 1872) was a state legislator, businessman, and public official. After being freed from slavery, he became a state senator during the Reconstruction Era in South Carolina. Wimbush was elected from Chester County and was secretary…
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Lucretia Newman Coleman (1856 – July 31, 1948) was an African-American writer born in British North America to a fugitive slave. Fluent at the end of the nineteenth-century, her works were praised by her contemporaries of the African-American press.
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Lucy Delaney (née Lucy Ann Berry; c. 1828–1830 – August 31, 1910) was an African American seamstress, slave narrator, and community leader. She was born into slavery and was primarily held by the Major Taylor Berry and Judge Robert Wash families.
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Lucy F. Simms (1855 or 1856 − 1934) was a former slave and educator who lived in Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA. She is one of those commemorated on the Emancipation and Freedom Monument in Richmond, Virginia.
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Lucy Goode Brooks (September 13, 1818 – October 7, 1900) was an enslaved American woman who later became instrumental in the founding of the Friends' Asylum for Colored Orphans in Richmond, Virginia.
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Lucy Higgs Nichols (April 10, 1838 – January 25, 1915) was an African American woman who escaped slavery. She served as a nurse for the Union Army during the American Civil War. Known affectionately as "Aunt Lucy", her sole photo shows her surrounded by…
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Lucy Newhall Colman (July 26, 1817 – January 18, 1906) was an American freethinker, abolitionist and feminist campaigner. She campaigned for racial justice and for the education of African Americans. Colman wrote an autobiography, called Reminiscences in…
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Lucy E. Parsons (c. 1851 – March 7, 1942) was an American social anarchist and later anarcho-communist, well known throughout her long life for her fiery speeches and writings. She was a founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World. There are…
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Lucy Stanton Day Sessions (October 16, 1831 – February 18, 1910) was an American abolitionist and feminist figure, notable for being the first African-American woman to complete a four-year course of a study at a college or university. She completed a…
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Lucy Terry Prince, often credited as simply Lucy Terry (c. 1733–1821), was an American settler and poet. Kidnapped in Africa and enslaved, she was taken to the British colony of Rhode Island.
19th century
In his 1880 autobiographical letter, abolitionist Luiz Gama described his mother as a free Black African woman named Luísa Mahin. Her alleged involvement in uprisings remains disputed and should not be treated as established biography.
1830–1882
Born free but illegally sold into slavery as a boy, Gama gained his freedom, became a lawyer and journalist, and won court cases liberating many enslaved Brazilians.
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Lunsford Lane (May 30, 1803 – June 27, 1879) was an entrepreneur tobacconist from North Carolina who bought freedom for himself and his family. He became a vocal abolitionist and wrote a slave narrative autobiography. His life and narrative shows the…
1742–
Lydia "Liddy" Broadnax (c. 1742 – c. 1820s) was an American free Black woman, former enslaved person, and businesswoman who lived in Williamsburg and later Richmond, Virginia. Some historians have suggested that Broadnax was a concubine of her former…
Jan.–June 1868
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1867
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Jan. 1866–Feb. 1867
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1868–69
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1865
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June 1865–Feb. 1866
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