African-American people with free status before 1865

first African-American poet (1753–1784)

free African American scientist, surveyor, almanac author and farmer (1731–1806)

free-born African American kidnapped by slave-traders

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

American physician (1831 - 1895)

American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian (1814–1884)

American minister, educator, writer (1760-1831)

American mountain man (1798-1866)

American former slave and abolitionist

United States Army officer and physician, abolitionist, journalist, and writer (1812–1885)

African American writer, poet (1730–1821)

Haitian-American hairdresser; declared Venerable by Pope John Paul II (1766–1853)

Founder of Prince Hall Freemasonry

outspoken African-American abolitionist and anti-slavery activist

American politician (1829–1897)

American writer and first known published African-American author

American physician and abolitionist (1813-1865)

American activist and artist (1806-1882)

American inventor (1878–1904)

American boxer

African American double agent for American rebels in the American Revolutionary War

African-American anti-slavery leader (1767–1822)

American politician

minister

non-slave black person in pre-emancipation USA

inventor and engineer (1806–1894)

African-American abolitionist, pioneer of civil rights

American boxer (1763-1829)

American Presbyterian minister (1795–1858)

American nurse

American Roman Catholic bishop (1830–1900)

George Washington's slave (1750-1828)

American writer (1825-1907)

American photographer (1820-1875)

American Jesuit educator (1834-1910)

Jamaican-American politician

American composer (1827–1903)

African-American journalist, historian (1816-1874)

Methodist bishop and educator

American entrepreneur and property-owner

American abolitionist

American abolitionist

African American abolitionist (1820–1888)

American educator (1840-1894)

African-American teacher and activist

African-American activist (1809-1879)

African American politician (1838-1893)

American poet

African American editor (1854–1921)

American Civil War surgeon

American soldier of the Revolutionary War

American rebel (1834-1859)

abolitionist (1810–1898)

African-American Mormon pioneer