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Alexander Twilight (1795-1857)
Reputed to be the first African American in the United States to graduate from college, Alexander Twilight was born on...
Jeffrey Brace (ca. 1742-1827)
Born in West Africa Jeffrey Brace (born Boyrereau Brinch) was enslaved at the age of sixteen and transported to Barbados,...
Lucy Terry Prince (c. 1732-1821)
The author of the first known work of African American literature (the poem “Bars Fight”), Lucy Terry Prince was kidnapped...
Prince Mortimer (ca. 1724-1834)
Born in West Africa, Prince Mortimer was captured by slave traders as a young boy. After enduring a brutal passage...
James W. C. Pennington (1807-1870)
Born into slavery on the eastern shore of Maryland in 1807, James William Charles Pennington escaped from slavery in 1828...
James McCune Smith (1813-1865)
Although many twenty-first century readers are aware of his work only through his introduction to Frederick Douglass’s My Bondage and...
Jack Mortimer (1700’s)
Jack and his wife Sophy were enslaved in Middletown, Connecticut to Philip Mortimer (1710-1794), a wealthy Irish businessman. Philip Mortimer...