19th-century African-American women

African-American abolitionist (1822–1913)

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

American enslaved woman (c1773-1835); owned by Thomas Jefferson and mother of his children

African-American author, educator, speaker and scholar (1858–1964)

American Voodoo practitioner

American inventor

African-American physician

American former slave and abolitionist

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

American slave, chef, Buffalo soldier and Female wartime crossdresser

American quilter (1837–1910)

American physician, educator, and activist (1848–1919)

United States fugitive enslaved person

American inventor (1878–1904)

African American enslaved person and sideshow performer

inventor

brothel madam, procuress, entrepreneur in New Orleans, Louisiana during the Storyville period

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

American educator (1837–1913)

American bicycle racer

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

American former slave

African American community activist in Washington, D.C.

African-American physician

American actress (1882-1934)

American model, cook, and activist (1834–1923)

American activist

African-American evangelist (1837–1915)

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

American educator (1840-1894)

American performers

American business woman

American teacher

African-American suffragette and club woman (1872-1945)

African-American businesswoman, clubwoman and suffragette

African-American racehorse owner and jockey

American formerly enslaved person and socialite

American businesswoman

American spy

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