Learn about enslavement, resistance, abolition and the struggle for freedom through biographies and historical records.
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1789–1848
Joseph Cassey (c. 1789–1848) was a French West Indies-born American businessman, abolitionist activist and Underground Railroad conductor. He also worked as a barber, and as well as a wig maker, perfumer, and money-lender. He lived in the historic Cassey…
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Joseph Godfrey (c. 1835 – July, 1909) was an African American who escaped from slavery into a Dakota community in Minnesota, United States, and fought on their side during the Dakota War of 1862. He was the only African-American combatant of the war.
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Joseph Jomo Pierre, also credited as Joseph Pierre, is a Trinidadian-Canadian actor and playwright. He is best known for his 2013 play Shakespeare's Nigga, a play which explored racism by recontextualizing two Moorish characters from the plays of William…
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Joseph E. Oates was a carpenter and politician in Florida, United States. He was born in Sumter County, Georgia and was enslaved. He was owned by Florida Governor David Shelby Walker of Florida and was literate. He was chosen to attend the National Negro…
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Joseph R. Holmes (c. 1838-May 3, 1869) was a former slave who worked as a shoemaker, and after being emancipated during the American Civil War became a farmer and politician in Charlotte County, Virginia. Elected to the Virginia Constitutional Convention…
1824–1916
Joseph Richard Winters (August 29, 1824 – November 29, 1916) was an African-American abolitionist and inventor who, on May 7, 1878, received U.S. Patent number 203,517 for a wagon-mounted fire escape ladder. On April 8, 1879, he received U.S. Patent number…
1839–1874
Elizabeth Josephine Brown (June 12, 1839 – January 16, 1874) was the daughter and biographer of escaped African-American slave William Wells Brown and his first wife Elizabeth Schooner. Josephine's account, Biography of an American Bondman, by His…
1842–1924
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (née St. Pierre; August 31, 1842 – March 13, 1924) was a publisher, journalist, civil rights leader, suffragist, abolitionist, and editor of the Woman's Era, the first national newspaper published by and for African-American women.
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Joshua McCarter Simpson (ca. 1820 - April 20, 1877) was a store proprietor, herbalist, poet and lyricist in the United States. He lamented the enslavement of African Americans, called out the hypocrisy of white Christian abusers, and denounced the brutal…
1789–1883
After escaping slavery, Henson established the Dawn Settlement in Canada and wrote a memoir that helped inspire Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single–volume journal, May 1867–November 1868 (226), is arranged chronologically and has a name index. Recorded in the journal are the complaints of freedmen and the actions taken by the agent, the agent's opinions of conditions in the area, and…
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single–volume "Journal of Business," March 1868 and July–November 1868 (221), is arranged chronologically. The March 1868 section relates to business transacted by those who had complaints concerning labor, labor contracts, and crime. The July–November…
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single–volume journal of business, August 1866–April 1867 (146), is arranged chronologically.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single volume journal of business, September–November 1865 (190), is arranged chronologically. The volume contains notations concerning daily activities of the Bureau and actions taken.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single–volume "Journal of Business," November–December 1868 (283), is arranged chronologically. The volume also contains a "report of indigent and destitute whites and freed people in the Parish of St. Mary, Louisiana, applying for relief,"…
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single–volume "Journal of Business," May 1867–November 1868 (295 ½), is arranged chronologically.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single–volume "Journal of Business," January–August 1868 (303), is arranged chronologically.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single–volume "Journal of Business," January–December 1867 (315), is arranged chronologically.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single–volume "Journal of Business," April 1867–September 1868 (333), is arranged chronologically.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single–volume "Journal of Business," December 1867–November 1868 (321), is arranged chronologically.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single–volume "Journal of Business," May 1867–December 1868 (342), is arranged chronologically.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single–volume "Journal of Business," June 1867–November 1868 (351), is arranged chronologically.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single–volume "Journal of Business," July 1867–December 1868 (373), is arranged chronologically.
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe two volumes of "Journals of Business," July 1867–December 1868, 1 (371) and 2 (372), are arranged chronologically.
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