Dave The Slave

Dave The Slave

male
artist, slave, emancipation, pottery, African-American, American
Dave the Slave (also "Dave the Potter" and "David Drake") is the most commonly used moniker of an influential American potter who lived in...
Frederick Douglass IV

Frederick Douglass IV

male, 27 years old (TALBOT)
Anacostia, slave, abolitionist, American, author, orator
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in 1817 on a tobacco plantation in eastern Maryland. His mother was hired out when he was still an infant....
John Brown

John Brown

male, deceased (1876)
from Virginia, African American, slave, slave narrative, American, Anti-Slavery Society…fugitive slave
John Brown (c.1810 - 1876) also known by his slave name, 'Fed', was a slave in Virginia. He moved at age ten to North Carolina where he was...
Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman

female, deceased (1913) (Dorchester)
freedom fighter, stood up for what she believed in, inspiration to women everywhere, African-American, African-American history, wartime spy…slave, born a slave in Maryland
Harriet Tubman (1820 - 1913) escaped slavery in Maryland in 1849 and traveled north. She then helped hundreds of other slaves flee to the north to...
Dred Scott

Dred Scott

male, deceased (1858)
From st. louis, missouri, freedom, Republican, Wisconsin Territory, death by tuberculosis, louisiana purchase…slave
Dred Scott was a slave who sued unsuccessfully for his freedom in the famous "Dred Scott v. Sandford" case of 1856. His case was based on the fact...
Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington

male, deceased (1915)
from Alabama, West Virginia writer, Alabama writer, Virginia writer, African American, author…slave
Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author and leader of the African American community....
Nat Turner

Nat Turner

male, deceased (1831)
American rebel slave, American, Rebel, revolutionary, slave, slavery…slave rebellion, Slave rebellions
Nat, remembered today as Nat Turner was an American slave whose failed slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, was the most remarkable...
Francis Drake

Francis Drake

male, deceased (1596)
pirate, civil engineer, ducats, Philip II, buried at sea, Royal Navy admiral…slave
Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral, (c. 1540 - January 27 1596) was an English privateer, navigator, slave trader, politician and civil engineer of...
Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth

female, deceased (1883)
Feminist, abolitionist, suffragist, American women's rights activist, feminism, inspirations to women everywhere…slave
Sojourner Truth was the self-given name, from 1843, of Isabella Baumfree, an American abolitionist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New...

York

male
William Clark, From Louisville, Kentucky, Riverfront Plaza/Belvedere, cholera, frontier, lewis and clark expedition…slave
York (c. 1770– March 1831) was the only one of the Lewis and Clark Expedition to serve without choice in the matter: he was William Clark's sl...