19th-century African-American people

African-American abolitionist (1822–1913)

African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist (1797–1883)

John Arthur Johnson, nicknamed the "Galveston Giant", was an American boxer who, at the height of the Jim Crow era, became the first black world heavyweight boxing champion (1908–1915). His 1910 fight against James J. Jeffries was dubbed the "fight of the century". Johnson defeated Jeffries, who was white, triggering dozens of race riots across the U.S. According to filmmaker Ken Burns, "for more than thirteen years, Jack Johnson was the most famous and the most notorious African American on Earth". He is widely regarded as one of the most influential boxers in history.

American slave rebellion leader (1800-1831)

African-American plaintiff in freedom suit (c.1799–1858)

American Voodoo practitioner

second tallest person ever recorded (1868–1905)

American former slave and abolitionist

American slave

first African-American female Star Route stagecoach delivery driver the United States

American slave, chef, Buffalo soldier and Female wartime crossdresser

American dancer (c1825–c1852/3)

United States fugitive enslaved person

African American enslaved person and sideshow performer

african-American slave experimented on by physician J. Marion Sims

African American missionary for the Presbyterian Church (1865–1927)

African American community activist in Washington, D.C.

American formerly enslaved person, community leader, philanthropist (1800–1885)

African-American baseball player and author

American activist

drag queen

circus sideshow performer with the Barnum and Bailey Circus (1842-1926)

American activist (1863–1925)

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1837-1916)

American performers

Redoshi ( 1848 – 1937) was a West African woman who was enslaved and smuggled to the U.S. state of Alabama as a girl in 1860. Until a later surviving claimant, Matilda McCrear, was announced in 2020, she was considered to have been the last surviving victim of the transatlantic slave trade. Taken captive in warfare at age 12 by the West African kingdom of Dahomey, she was sold to Americans and transported by ship to the United States in violation of U.S. law. She was sold again and enslaved on the upcountry plantation of the Washington M. Smith family in Dallas County, Alabama, where her

man enslaved in United States

American spy

American gender-variant prostitute

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient

first African-American woman to graduate Vassar College and was a Librarian/Foreign Cataloger at the Boston Public Library