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Juan Garrido
First known African in the Americas; wrote a petition, wanting to be paid for
the things he did, like planting new crops and going on all the conquests
and pacifications
Estavanico
enslaved African healer from Morocco and was forced to work as an
translator and explorer, first African in Texas and then killed by indigenous
people
Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa)
first hand perspective of him boarding the slave ship at 11 years old;
autobiography or slave narrative
Phillis Wheatley
wrote the poem "On Being Brought from Africa to America", she was the
first African American to publish a book of poetry; her finding Christianity;
was manumitted
Sengebe Pieh (Joseph Cinque)
African who led the revolt on La Amistad
Solomon Northup
wrote 12 years of slave; was born a free man and the kidnapped at 32
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
born free in Maryland in 1825, learned to read and write and then became
an abolitionist; she wrote a book about a slave auction and the emotion of it
all, humanize the slaves and trying to end slavery
Eli Whitney
Invented the cotton gin
Jemmy
Led the Stono Rebellion
Dredd Scott
fought for his freedom in court, never gained it, lost to Roger, Taney;
Resulted in blacks not being citizens
Roger B. Taney
said that blacks were not citizens and forced Dred back into slavery
Elizabeth Key
first black woman to sue and win her freedom
David Drake
, potter in South Carolina who wrote inscriptions on his work (illegal)
Henry Clay
white, who wanted the blacks to be exiled; president of the American
Colonization Society
Alexander Crummell
black, who wanted other blacks to spread Christianity through Africa; pro
emigrationists
Toussaint L'Overture
the architect of the Haitian Revolution, captured and sent to France
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
took over after Toussaint L'Ouverture was captured
Charles Deslondes
led up to 500 slaves in the Louisiana Slave Revolt (German Coast
Uprising)(Similar to Jemmy)
Madison Washington
an enslaved cook, let a revolt on board the Creole, and sailed it to the
Bahamas to be free
Maria W. Stewart
the first black women to publish a political manifesto and one of the first to
give a public address
Bayano
led a maroon community through wars against the Spanish in Panama
Queen Nanny
led maroons in wars against the English in Jamaica
Leonard Parkinson
a captain of the Maroons in Jamaica
Five Civilized Tribes
Cherokee, Chickasaw, Chocktaw, Creek, and Seminole; Seminole (Florida,
Abraham, Gopher John)
Abraham
A black Seminole leader
Gopher John (John Horse)
A black Seminole leader and interpreter
Paul Cuffee
first person to relocate Africans to Africa from the Americas
Martin Delany
a black nationalist leader who supported emigration, also was one of the
first African Americans to write a book, and was a Major in the army
Frederick Douglass
formerly enslaved abolitionist
Verified Answers Latest Version 2025 A+
Juan Garrido
First known African in the Americas; wrote a petition, wanting to be paid for
the things he did, like planting new crops and going on all the conquests
and pacifications
Estavanico
enslaved African healer from Morocco and was forced to work as an
translator and explorer, first African in Texas and then killed by indigenous
people
Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa)
first hand perspective of him boarding the slave ship at 11 years old;
autobiography or slave narrative
Phillis Wheatley
wrote the poem "On Being Brought from Africa to America", she was the
first African American to publish a book of poetry; her finding Christianity;
was manumitted
Sengebe Pieh (Joseph Cinque)
African who led the revolt on La Amistad
Solomon Northup
wrote 12 years of slave; was born a free man and the kidnapped at 32
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
born free in Maryland in 1825, learned to read and write and then became
an abolitionist; she wrote a book about a slave auction and the emotion of it
all, humanize the slaves and trying to end slavery
Eli Whitney
Invented the cotton gin
Jemmy
Led the Stono Rebellion
Dredd Scott
fought for his freedom in court, never gained it, lost to Roger, Taney;
Resulted in blacks not being citizens
Roger B. Taney
said that blacks were not citizens and forced Dred back into slavery
Elizabeth Key
first black woman to sue and win her freedom
David Drake
, potter in South Carolina who wrote inscriptions on his work (illegal)
Henry Clay
white, who wanted the blacks to be exiled; president of the American
Colonization Society
Alexander Crummell
black, who wanted other blacks to spread Christianity through Africa; pro
emigrationists
Toussaint L'Overture
the architect of the Haitian Revolution, captured and sent to France
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
took over after Toussaint L'Ouverture was captured
Charles Deslondes
led up to 500 slaves in the Louisiana Slave Revolt (German Coast
Uprising)(Similar to Jemmy)
Madison Washington
an enslaved cook, let a revolt on board the Creole, and sailed it to the
Bahamas to be free
Maria W. Stewart
the first black women to publish a political manifesto and one of the first to
give a public address
Bayano
led a maroon community through wars against the Spanish in Panama
Queen Nanny
led maroons in wars against the English in Jamaica
Leonard Parkinson
a captain of the Maroons in Jamaica
Five Civilized Tribes
Cherokee, Chickasaw, Chocktaw, Creek, and Seminole; Seminole (Florida,
Abraham, Gopher John)
Abraham
A black Seminole leader
Gopher John (John Horse)
A black Seminole leader and interpreter
Paul Cuffee
first person to relocate Africans to Africa from the Americas
Martin Delany
a black nationalist leader who supported emigration, also was one of the
first African Americans to write a book, and was a Major in the army
Frederick Douglass
formerly enslaved abolitionist
