Born into slavery in the Norfolk area of Virginia, William Carney escaped servitude as a young man on the Underground Railroad to join the rest of his...
Lucretia Coffin Mott, abolitionist and early women’s rights activist, was born on January 3, 1793 to a Quaker family in Nantucket, Massachusetts. As a...
Born into slavery in Georgia in 1848, Susie King Taylor (born Susan Baker) lived on a plantation for the first seven years of her life. In 1855, Susie...
On February 1, 1865, the day after the House of Representatives passed the 13th amendment, John Swett Rock of Boston became the first African American...