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This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:18th-century African-American women The contents of that subcategory can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:18th-century American people .
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:18th-century African-American people. It includes 18th-century African-American people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Gowan Pamphlet was born into slavery in 1748. [5]In the 1770s, he was enslaved as a house slave by tavern owner and widow Jane Vobe (1733–1786). [6] Multiple Black persons enslaved by Vobe "learned to read the Bible and took part in formal Church of England services at Bruton Parish Church," possibly including Pamphlet. [5]
Edith Cumbo (c. 1735 – ?) was a free mixed-race Black woman and entrepreneur who lived in Williamsburg, Virginia. Her life story is taught in the Advanced Placement American history curriculum to illustrate the challenges that free African Americans faced during the period of the American Revolution. Early life and family Edith Cumbo was born in around 1735 in Charles City County, Virginia ...
Approximately 5000 free African-American men helped the American Colonists in their struggle for freedom. One of these men, Agrippa Hull, fought in the American Revolution for over six years. He and the other African-American soldiers fought in order to improve their white neighbor's views of them and advance their own fight of freedom. [51]
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Elizabeth Freeman (c. 1744 – December 28, 1829), also known as Mumbet, [a] was one of the first enslaved African Americans to file and win a freedom suit in Massachusetts.The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling, in Freeman's favor, found slavery to be inconsistent with the 1780 Constitution of Massachusetts.
Henry Louis Gates Jr., a professor of African-American literature and history, who studied the 1882 catalog of Wheeler's library, has written that he was surprised to find it included many slave narratives, in addition to works by the 18th-century African-born poet Phillis Wheatley and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave.