by BLOG | Oct 25, 2016 | African American History, People
Like the majority of black Americans living in the South in pre-Civil War America, Samuel and Amanda Chambers were slaves. Samuel, was born in 1831 in Pickens County, Alabama. Amanda was born in 1840 in Noxubee County, Mississippi. Samuel’s father was his owner,...
by FikesRobert | Oct 13, 2016 | African American History, People
Powhatan Beaty was an American soldier and actor. He served in the Union Army’s 5th United States Colored Infantry Regiment throughout the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign during the American Civil War. He received the Medal of Honor, the highest military decoration given...
by FikesRobert | Sep 23, 2016 | African American History, Events
The Pearl Incident in 1848 was the single largest recorded escape attempt by enslaved people in United States history. On April 15, 1848, 77 slaves attempted to flee Washington, D.C. by sailing away on a schooner called The Pearl. They planned to sail south along...
by PitzerRobert | Sep 1, 2016 | African American History, People
Joseph T. Ball, Jr. was born Feb. 21, 1804 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His mother Mary Montgomery Drew of Cambridge, Massachusetts, was white while his father was Jamaican-born Joseph T. Ball, Sr who came to Massachusetts in 1790. The elder Ball founded a society to...
by FikesRobert | Aug 31, 2016 | African American History, People
Minnie M. Cox, the first black female postmaster, was born 1869 in Lexington, Mississippi, to former slaves William and Mary Geddings. After attending school in Lexington and Indianola, Mississippi, Geddings graduated from Fisk University at the age of nineteen. After...
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