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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.
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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]
Hill was the first African American clockmaker and the only African American clockmaker working during the late 18th century and early 19th century. [1] Around 1814, Hill moved his business to Mount Holly, New Jersey. [6] On February 29, 1820, Hill purchased a large house in Mount Holly. [6] He died in December of that same year. [6]
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]
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.
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