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Drake,
David (Dave the Potter) born 1800-c.1870 South Carolina, literate
artisan |
| Day, Thomas 1801-1861, cabinet maker in North Carolina born in Virginia |
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Keckly, Elizabeth Hobbs c.1824-1907,
modiste, born in Virginia (she is number 19 on website of bios ) |
| Douglass, Frederick |
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Jacobs, Harriet A.,
born North Carolina, 1813-1897—author of slave narrative, abolitionist
etc. |
| Horton, George Moses 1798?-ca. 1880, poet, born in North Carolina |
| Bayley, Solomon 1825 narrative, Delaware |
| Turner, Nat 1800-1831, born in Virginia |
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Forten, Charlotte 1837 -1914 South
Carolina teacher from Philadelphia |
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Brown, Clara 1803-1885 Laundress,
Colorado |
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Young, Hiram ca1812-1882, wagon-maker/ blacksmith, Missouri |
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Derham, James ca1757- –
physician, New Orleans |
| See Juliet E. K. Walker's The History of Black Business in America |
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Bannister,
Edward
M. painter, 1826-1901, born in Nova Scotia |
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Brown, William
Wells 1814-1884. born Lexington Kentucky-abolitionist First
African American to publish novel or play. |
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Bush, George
Washington b.1779 (Pennsylvania)-1863 in Washington state. Pioneer settler and farmer in Olympia-Tumwater area. |
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Powers, Harriet Born a slave in Georgia in 1837-1911, created two quilts which are the best known and well preserved examples of Southern American quilting tradition still in existence. |
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Roper, Moses b.1815 in Caswell Co., North Carolina. Wrote a narrative on his escape from slavery at the age of 19 and was active abolitionist into the 1850's. |
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Walker, David
born free in Wilmington, North Carolina,1785-1830, prominent
abolitionist |
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Williams,
Cathay
female buffalo soldier, born in Missouri in 1842 |
