Era Bell Thompson (August 10, 1905 – December 30, 1986) was an American writer and editor. Thompson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, to an African American family, the only daughter of Steward "Tony" Thompson and Mary Logan Thompson, the children of formerly…
Eric Derwent Walrond (18 December 1898 – 8 August 1966) was an Afro-Caribbean writer and journalist. A member of the Harlem Renaissance, he was well-travelled, moving early in life to live in Barbados, then Panama, New York City, and eventually England.…
Esperança Garcia (born c. 1751) was an enslaved Afro-Brazilian and likely Creole woman in Brazil who is considered to have written the first earliest known slave petition in Brazil. On 6 September 1770, she sent a petition to free herself from slavery to…
Estella Mary Montgomery Kent (née Estella Mary Montgomery; July 1882 – October 15, 1939) was an American homicide victim. She was the daughter of former slaves who founded the black community of Mound Bayou, Mississippi. She was killed by police in 1939…
Enslaved and shipwrecked in Florida, Estevanico survived years of overland travel and later guided a Spanish expedition into present-day New Mexico and Arizona.
Esther "Hetty" Saunders (c. 1793–1862) was a poet in New Jersey, USA. She was African American and born a slave before her family escaped and she was taken in by a Quaker family in New Jersey. Her burial site at the Salem Friends Burial Ground is part of…
Eufrosina Hinard (also spelled Hisnard; 1777 – after 1819), was a businesswoman who lived in New Orleans and Pensacola, Spanish West Florida. Hinard, a free mixed-race woman, owned and bought slaves and allowed them to purchase their own freedom.
Eugene Warburg (c. 1825—1859) was an African-American sculptor. Born enslaved from birth in New Orleans in the mid-1820s, he was legally manumitted by his father, who was also his owner, at four years old.
Eulalie de Mandéville also known as Cécée MacCarty (1774–1848) was an American businesswoman. She has been called the 'most successful free mulatto businesswoman' in the Antebellum South. Eulalie de Mandeville was born in New Orleans, the daughter of Count…
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