Authors
Slave who became a celebrate poet
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
The dangerous journey from Africa to the West Indies to America
What is The Middle Passage?
Secret system of escape routes for "passengers" hidden in "stations" with help of "agents
What is the Underground Railroad?
The 16th president who signed the Emancipation Proclamation
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Former slave who became a traveling speaker who left standing room only when she gave speeches
Who is Sojourner Truth?
Led a revolt on AMISTAD resulting in a Supreme Court decision that allowed the passengers to return home to Africa
Who is Joseph Cinque?
Escaped slave known as "Moses" who successfully rescued 300+ slaves & also served as a spy, scout, & nurse during the war
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Blind slave known as "Blind Tom" who brilliantly played the piano
Who is Thomas Green Bethune?
Escaped slave became a persuasive public speaker, writer of his own novel & newspaper North Star, government marshal, & Haiti minister
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Blacksmith, hunter, trader, scout, fur trader, & Chief of the Crow Nation who discovered path in Rocky Mountains leading to California
Who is James Beckwourth?
Revolutionized the sugar industry, made milk, soap, & glue; return to Paris to lead a school
Who is Norbert Rillieux?
SC slave who escaped as a captain of a ship; became a congressman for SC
Who is Robert Smalls?
Escaped slave who hid 7+ years, then wrote about her experience under a pseudonym; became abolitionist speaker & reformer after her freedom was bought
Who is Harriet Jacobs?
His freedom was bought by abolitionists after his freedom was denied by the Supreme Court
Black prophet hung after leading a rebellion
Who is Nat Turner?
Former slave became world-famous inventor for peanut uses, crop rotation; scientist & teacher
Who is George Washington Carver?
White abolitionist who wrote anti-slavery newspaper
Who is William Garrison?
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Former slave turned orator, author, teacher (opened Tuskagee Institute), advisor to presidents
Who is Booker T. Washington?
1st African American to earn a doctorate, believed in education, civil rights activism, & strongly opposed the Atlanta Compromise
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?