Learn about enslavement, resistance, abolition and the struggle for freedom through biographies and historical records.
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2004 November 5
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGEl Mina Castle from afar, "Slave Castle". Original Carousel number, 1, Slide number, 49.
2004 November 5
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGEl Mina Castle interior courtyard/building, Infamous Slave Castle. Original Carousel number, 1, Slide number, 57.
1820–1905
Eli Baptist (1820 - May 26, 1905) was an American abolitionist and a leader of the African-American community in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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Eli Barnes was an American politician. He was a representative in the Georgia Assembly as a Republican during the Reconstruction Era. A former slave who worked as a mechanic, he was African American. He was elected in 1868 and represented Hancock County,…
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Elias Camp Morris (May 7, 1855 – September 5, 1922) was an American minister, politician, and businessman. Born a slave, Morris attended seminary then preached at Centennial Baptist Church in Helena, Arkansas. He rose to prominence among black Baptists,…
1859–1924
Elijah B. Odom (10 October 1859 – 24 February 1924) was an American physician and businessperson from Hernando, Mississippi. He was born into slavery in 1859. Despite the enactment of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, his descendants believe he was…
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Elijah Cook (born c. 1835 –August 20, 1916) was an American community leader, organizer of schools, and legislator from Montgomery, Alabama. A former slave, he helped establish Montgomery's first school for African Americans in 1865 after the American…
2004 November 5
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGElina Mina Castle view of exterior courtyard. Original Carousel number, 1, Slide number, 60.
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Elisha Winfield Green (c. 1815—1893) was a former slave who became a Baptist leader in Kentucky, US. For five years he was moderator of the Consolidated Baptist Educational Association, and he promoted the establishment of what is now the Simmons College…
1831–1922
Eliza Ann Gardner (May 28, 1831 – January 4, 1922) was an African-American abolitionist, religious leader and women's movement leader from Boston, Massachusetts. She founded the missionary society of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (AMEZ), was…
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Eliza Carpenter (c. 1851 – December 16, 1924) was a race horse owner and jockey who was born into slavery and achieved success as the only African-American horse racer in early Oklahoma. For more than thirty years she owned and raced a number of…
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Eliza Junor (c. 1804–20 April 1861) was a Scotswoman of mixed race, who was the daughter of a former slave owner, Hugh Junor, and a slave or former slave ("free coloured woman") whose name is not recorded.
1843–1948
Eliza Moore (June 27, 1843 – January 21, 1948) was one of the last living African Americans proven to have been born into slavery in the United States. Her father's name was Judge Moore and Eliza was his only child which he had in his old age. Moore was…
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Elizabeth Gertrude Suggs (December 11, 1876 – January 29, 1908) was a 19th-century American author, born to former slaves. Physically impaired with osteogenesis imperfecta, she was able to gain an education and became known as a temperance lecturer. The…
1830–
Eliza Winston (c. 1830–?) was an enslaved American from Mississippi who was freed from her owners while with them on vacation in Minnesota, a free state. She received a hearing in court via a Freedom suit, where she said she and her late husband had…
1817–1883
Elizabeth Amelia Gloucester (née Parkhill; 1817 – August 9, 1883) was one of the wealthiest black African-American women at the time of her death and was a supporter of the Underground Railroad and a business owner.
1835–1919
Elizabeth "Betsey" Blakeley was a freedom seeker who escaped to Boston through the Underground Railroad. She was born enslaved in Wilmington, North Carolina and was mistreated by her enslaver, George W. Davis, British consul for Wilmington. At fifteen…
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Elizabeth Clark-Lewis is an American historian. She is professor of history and director of the public history program at Howard University. She has written about slavery, emancipation and domestic labor among other topics, especially as regards the…
c. 1744–1829
Known as Mumbet, Freeman argued that the state’s new constitution guaranteed her freedom, and her 1781 court victory helped end slavery in Massachusetts.
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Lucy Elizabeth Johnson Forby (March c. 1846 – October 3, 1905) was an "estimable colored woman" of the United States. Lizzie Forby was a mixed-race Tennessean who was enslaved from birth until approximately age 17 by Andrew Johnson, later the 17th…
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Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (February 1818 – May 1907) was an American seamstress, activist, and writer who lived in Washington, D.C. She was the personal dressmaker (modiste) and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln. An African American, Keckley also started the…
Born 1630
Elizabeth Key Grinstead (also Greenstead; c. 1630 or 1632 – 1665) was one of the first mixed race people in the Thirteen Colonies to sue for freedom from slavery and win. Key won her freedom and that of her infant son, John Grinstead, on July 21, 1656, in…
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Elizabeth Cook Riley (née Cook; c. 1792 – 1855) was an African-American Bostonian abolitionist who aided in the escape of fugitive slave Shadrach Minkins. She was a member of the committee which raised the first funds towards William Lloyd Garrison's The…
Born 1865
Ella Williams (1865–1928), also known by her stage name Mme Abomah, was an American performer. She was a woman of extraordinary height and strength who became an international celebrity in the late 1800s. Born in South Carolina in 1865 to parents who were…
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