18th-century American slaves

The list 18th-century American slaves includes Sally Hemings, Seymour Burr, Elizabeth Freeman (Mum Bett), Kunta Kinte and George Washington Buckner. The list consists of 143 members and 2 sublists.

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Black Loyalists
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People who were enslaved by Thomas Jefferson
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Sally Hemings

Slave of Thomas Jefferson (c. 1773–1835)

Overview: Sarah (Sally) Hemings (c. 1773–1835) was an enslaved woman of mixed race owned by President Thomas Jefferson. Multiple lines of evidence indicate that Jefferson had a long-term sexual relationship with ...

Date of birth: 1773

Date of death: 1835

Age: 61 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Other

Gender: Female

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Presidents of the United States and slavery 5T

19th-century African-American women 63T

18th-century African-American women 19T
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Seymour Burr

Enslaved American and Patriot in the American Revolution

Overview: Seymour Burr (1754/1762–1837) was an African-American slave in the Connecticut Colony in the North American British Colonies and United States. Owned by the brother of Colonel Aaron Burr, who was also ...

Date of death: 1837

Nationality: American

Occupation: Military

Gender: Male

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Black Patriots 24T

African Americans in the American Revolution 49T

Continental Army soldiers 115T
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Elizabeth Freeman (Mum Bett)

American formerly enslaved abolitionist

Overview: Elizabeth Freeman (c.1744 – December 28, 1829), also known as Bet, Mum Bett, or MumBet, was the first enslaved African American to file and win a freedom suit in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Supreme ...

Date of birth: 1742

Date of death: 28 December 1829

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

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19th-century African-American women 63T

18th-century African-American women 19T

Activists from New York (state) 775T
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Kunta Kinte

Character in Alex Haley's ''Roots''

Overview: Kunta Kinte (c. 1750 – c. 1822; KOON-tah KIN-tay) is a character in the 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family by American author Alex Haley. According to Haley, Kunta Kinte was based on one ...

Date of birth: 1750

Date of death: 1822

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: Gambian

Gender: Male

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Literary characters introduced in 1976 11T

19th-century American slaves 304T

Roots 5T
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George Washington Buckner

American diplomat

Overview: George Washington Buckner (December 1, 1855 – February 17, 1943) was an American physician and diplomat. He was United States minister to Liberia from 1913 to 1915.

Date of birth: 1 December 1855

Date of death: 17 February 1943

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Doctor

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20th-century American diplomats 174T

Physicians from Indiana 28T

Woodrow Wilson administration personnel 43T
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Colonel Tye

Emancipated slave and British army commander

Overview: Titus Cornelius, also known as Titus, Tye, and famously as Colonel Tye (c.– 1780), was a slave of African descent in the Province of New Jersey who escaped from his master and fought as a Black Loyalist ...

Date of birth: 1753

Date of death: 1780

Age: 26 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Military

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Loyalists in the American Revolution from New Jersey 12T

Black Loyalists 19T

British military personnel killed in the American Revolutionary War 24T
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Crispus Attucks

18th-century African-American stevedore; first victim of the Boston Massacre

Overview: Crispus Attucks (c. – March 5, 1770) was an American whaler, sailor, and stevedore of African and Native American descent, who is traditionally regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre ...

Date of birth: 1723

Date of death: 5 March 1770

Age: 46 (age at death)

Nationality: American

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Native American people from Massachusetts 49T

Black Patriots 24T

Boston Massacre 11T
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Charity Still

Overview: Charity Still (c. 1775 – 1857) was a matriarch of the American abolition movement and witness to the development of the Underground Railroad.

Date of birth: 1775

Date of death: 1857

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Gender: Female

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Zamba Zembola

American, Writer

Overview: Zamba Zembola (born c. 1780) is the supposed author of an 1847 slave narrative, The Life and Adventures of Zamba, an African Negro King; and his Experience of Slavery in South Carolina, which describes ...

Date of birth: 1780

Date of death: 1860

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

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19th-century American slaves 304T

Congolese-American history 7T

People who wrote slave narratives 77T
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Betty Hemings

Mother of Sally Hemings

Overview: Elizabeth "Betty" Hemings (c.1735 – 1807) was an enslaved mixed-race woman in colonial Virginia. With her master, planter John Wayles, she had six children, including Sally Hemings. These children were ...

Date of death: 1807

Nationality: American

Occupation: Other

Gender: Female

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19th-century African-American women 63T

18th-century African-American women 19T

People from Monticello 23T
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James Derham

American physician

Overview: James Derham (May 2, 1762—1802?), also known as James Durham, was the first African American to formally practice medicine in the United States, though he never received an M.D. degree.

Date of birth: 1757

Date of death: 1802

Age: 44 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Doctor

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Missing person cases in Pennsylvania 18T

18th-century American scientists 11T

1800s missing person cases 3T
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Richard Pierpoint

British soldier of Senegalese descent

Overview: Richard Pierpoint (Bundu c. 1744 – Canada c. 1837), also known as Black Dick, Captain Dick, Captain Pierpoint, Pawpine, and Parepoint was a British soldier of Senegalese descent. Brought to America as ...

Date of birth: 1744

Date of death: 1838

Age: 93 (age at death)

Nationality: Senegalese

Occupation: Military

Gender: Male

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Canadian people of Senegalese descent 4T

Loyalist military personnel of the American Revolutionary War 49T

Black Loyalists 18T
13.

Oscar Marion

Overview: Oscar Marion was an American slave and Revolutionary War militiaman.

Nationality: American

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Year of birth missing 11,452T

Year of death missing 14,093T

South Carolina colonial people 68T
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Thomas Peters (revolutionary)

Black Loyalist founding father of Sierra Leone

Overview: Thomas Peters, born Thomas Potters (1738 – 25 June 1792), was a veteran of the Black Pioneers, fighting for the British in the American Revolutionary War. A Black Loyalist, he was resettled in Nova Scotia ...

Date of birth: 25 June 1738

Date of death: 1792

Age: 53 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Politician

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Loyalists in the American Revolution from North Carolina 8T

18th-century Sierra Leonean people 1T

Yoruba-American history 8T
15.

George Lisle (Baptist)

African American baptist minister and missionary)

Overview: George Liele Liele, or Leile, or George Sharp (1750–1820) was an African American and emancipated slave who became the founding pastor of the First African Baptist Church, in Savannah, Georgia (USA). He ...

Date of birth: 1750

Date of death: 1820

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: American

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Christian abolitionists 358T

Baptist missionaries in Jamaica 6T

Baptist missionaries from the United States 98T
16.

Oney Judge

American slave

Overview: Oney "Ona" Judge (c.1773—February 25, 1848) – known as Oney Judge Staines after marriage, was an enslaved African-American servant on George Washington's plantation, Mount Vernon, in Virginia. Beginning ...

Date of birth: 1 January 1773

Date of death: 25 February 1848

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Gender: Female

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People from Mount Vernon, Virginia 20T

Mount Vernon slaves 8T

Custis family of Virginia 22T
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Pierre Toussaint

Haitian-American philanthropist and venerated Catholic

Overview: The Venerable Pierre Toussaint (27 June 1766 – June 30, 1853) was a former slave from the French colony of Saint-Domingue who was brought to New York City by his owners in 1787. There he eventually gained ...

Date of birth: 27 June 1766

Date of death: 30 June 1853

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: Haitian

Occupation: Philanthropist

Gender: Male

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Venerated African Americans 3T

Venerated African-American Christians 4T

Venerated African-American Catholics 6T
18.

Mammy Kate

Overview: Mammy Kate was a house slave who belonged to future Governor Stephen Heard (1740–1815) of Georgia. She lived in what was then Wilkes County, Georgia, now Elbert County, Georgia.

Nationality: American

Gender: Female

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18th-century African-American women 19T

Year of birth missing 11,452T

Year of death missing 14,093T
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Tom Molineaux

American boxer

Overview: Thomas "Tom" Molineaux (23 March 1784 – 4 August 1818), sometimes spelled Molyneaux, was an African-American bare-knuckle boxer and possibly a former slave. He spent much of his career in Great ...

Date of birth: 1784

Date of death: 1818

Age: 33 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Boxing

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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Tuberculosis deaths in Ireland 13T

19th-century American slaves 304T

Free Negroes 59T
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Richard Allen (bishop)

American educator, author, writer, and black leader (1760–1831)

Overview: Richard Allen (February 14, 1760 – March 26, 1831) was a minister, educator, writer, and one of America's most active and influential black leaders. In 1794, he founded the African Methodist Episcopal ...

Date of birth: 14 February 1760

Date of death: 26 March 1831

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Gender: Male

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Christian abolitionists 396T

Evangelical Anglican clergy 86T

African-American abolitionists 187T