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He saw his wife in chains. She had been sold. He was not allowed to touch her when he said goodbye. |
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She was a slave who sued for and won her freedom in Massachusetts in 1781. |
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He was a wealthy free black but could not vote. He sued and lost but the law was then changed for all free blacks in Massachusetts. |
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He took his owner to court in Massachusetts for beating him and gained his freedom.io |
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He served during the Revolution and then became rich. He gave his money to the cause of black freedom. |
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A soldier at Lexington in 1775, he later became a minister in Vermont. |
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His mother lost all her children in a slave auction. He later escaped and became a ministerel |
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He wrote poetry as a student in New York |
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Richard Allen and Absalom Jones |
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Founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church and opened a school, founded the Free African society and defended Philadelphia during the war of 1812. |
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Tell me your views on slavery... |
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Tell me your views on African Americans who worked to prove themselves and FIGHT slavery... |
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