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The list 19th-century African-American women includes Sally Hemings, Elizabeth Freeman (Mum Bett), Harriet Tubman, Millie and Christine McCoy and Ida B. Wells. The list consists of 206 members and 2 sublists.

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  • 1.

    Sally Hemings
    Slave of Thomas Jefferson (c. 1773–1835)
    Sally Hemings
    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
    18th-century American slaves 112T
    18th-century African-American women 19T
  • 2.

    Harriet Tubman
    African-American abolitionist and Union spy
    Harriet Tubman
    Overview: Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, c. – March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue a ...
    Date of birth: 1820
    Date of death: 10 March 1913
    Age: 92 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    African-American heroes and icons 14T
    Christian abolitionists 358T
    20th-century African-American women 87T
  • 3.

    Sarah Boone
    American inventor
    Sarah Boone
    Overview: Sarah Boone (1832–1904) was an American inventor who on April 26, 1892, obtained United States patent number 473,563 for her improvements to the ironing board. Boone's ironing board was designed to improve ...
    Date of birth: 7 March 1878
    Date of death: 1904
    Age: 25 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Inventor
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    American tailors 25T
    19th-century American businesswomen 117T
    19th-century American slaves 304T
  • 4.

    Elizabeth Freeman (Mum Bett)
    American formerly enslaved abolitionist
    Elizabeth Freeman (Mum Bett)
    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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    18th-century American slaves 112T
    18th-century African-American women 19T
    Activists from New York (state) 775T
  • 5.

    Sarah E. Goode
    American inventor (1855–1905)
    Sarah E. Goode
    Overview: Sarah Elisabeth Goode (1855 – April 8, 1905) was an entrepreneur and inventor. She was the first African-American woman to receive a United States patent, which she received in 1885. The first African ...
    Date of birth: 1855
    Date of death: 8 April 1905
    Age: 49 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Inventor
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    19th-century American inventors 564T
    Women inventors 259T
    African-American inventors 88T
  • 6.

    Millie and Christine McCoy
    African-American conjoined twins and performers (1851–1912)
    Millie and Christine McCoy
    Overview: Millie and Christine McKoy (July 11, 1851 – October 8, 1912) were American conjoined twins who went by the stage names "The Carolina Twins", "The Two-Headed Nightingale" and "The Eighth Wonder of the ...
    Date of birth: 11 July 1851
    Date of death: 8 October 1912
    Age: 61 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Entertainer
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    Tuberculosis deaths in North Carolina 6T
    19th-century American slaves 373T
    Twin musical duos 98T
  • 7.

    Harriet Powers
    Quilter
    Harriet Powers
    Overview: Harriet Powers (October 29, 1837 – January 1, 1910) was an American folk artist, and quilt maker. She was born into slavery in rural Georgia. She used traditional appliqué techniques to record local ...
    Date of birth: 29 October 1837
    Date of death: 1 January 1910
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Artist
    Gender: Female
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    19th-century American slaves 304T
    20th-century African-American women 87T
    19th-century textile artists 37T
  • 8.

    Nancy Green
    American model, cook, and activist (1834–1923)
    Nancy Green
    Overview: Nancy Green (November 17, 1834 – August 30, 1923) was a storyteller, cook, activist, and the first of several African-American models hired to promote a corporate trademark as "Aunt Jemima".
    Date of birth: 4 March 1834
    Date of death: 23 September 1923
    Age: 89 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Model
    Gender: Female
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    Female characters in advertising 32T
    Baptists from Illinois 23T
    19th-century American slaves 304T
  • 9.

    Ida B. Wells
    Social Reformer
    Ida B. Wells
    Overview: Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National ...
    Date of birth: 16 July 1862
    Date of death: 25 March 1931
    Age: 68 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    19th-century American women educators 199T
    American women sociologists 259T
    19th-century American slaves 304T
  • 10.

    Helen Appo Cook
    community activist
    Helen Appo Cook
    Overview: Helen Appo Cook (July 21, 1837 – November 20, 1913) was a wealthy, prominent African-American community activist in Washington, D.C. and a leader in the women's club movement. Cook was a founder and p ...
    Date of birth: 21 July 1837
    Date of death: 20 November 1913
    Age: 76 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    African-American suffragists 91T
    African-American women 413T
    19th-century African-American activists 99T
  • 11.
    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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  • 12.

    Mary Fields
    American mail carrier (c. 1832 – 1914)
    Mary Fields
    Overview: Mary Fields (c. 1832–1914), also known as Stagecoach Mary and Black Mary, was the first African-American female star route mail carrier in the United States. She was not an employee of the United States ...
    Date of birth: 1832
    Date of death: 5 December 1914
    Age: 82 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Transportation And Logistics
    Gender: Female
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    African-American equestrians 10T
    19th-century American slaves 371T
    20th-century African-American women 4,116T
  • 13.

    Harriet Hemings
    Daughter of Thomas Jefferson (1801-died after 1822)
    Harriet Hemings
    Overview: Harriet Hemings (May 1801 – 1870) was born into slavery at Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States, in the first year of his presidency. Most historians believe her ...
    Date of birth: May 1801
    Date of death: 1863
    Age: 61 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Relative
    Gender: Female
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    Children of Sally Hemings 3T
    Children of Thomas Jefferson 5T
    Children of vice presidents of the United States 71T
  • 14.

    Bethany Veney
    American writer
    Bethany Veney
    Overview: Bethany Johnson Veney (c. 1813 – November 16, 1916), born into slavery in Shenandoah County, Virginia, is best remembered in historical studies for her autobiography, Aunt Betty's Story: The Narrative ...
    Date of birth: 1813
    Date of death: 16 November 1916
    Age: 103 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    19th-century American slaves 304T
    American women memoirists 620T
    Women centenarians 1,059T
  • 15.

    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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    18th-century American slaves 112T
    18th-century African-American women 19T
    People from Monticello 23T
  • 16.

    Lily Ann Granderson
    American slave
    Overview: Lily Ann Granderson was born a slave in Virginia in 1816. She was a pioneering educator who taught other enslaved people how to read and influenced the founding of Jackson State University.
    Date of birth: 1816
    Age: 208
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Educator
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    19th-century American women educators 199T
    19th-century American slaves 304T
    19th-century American educators 506T
  • 17.

    Fanny Jackson Coppin
    American educator
    Fanny Jackson Coppin
    Overview: Fanny Jackson Coppin (January 8, 1837 – January 21, 1913) was an American educator, missionary and a lifelong advocate for female higher education.
    Date of birth: 15 October 1837
    Date of death: 21 January 1913
    Age: 75 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Educator
    Gender: Female
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    19th-century American women educators 199T
    19th-century women educators 236T
    19th-century American slaves 304T
  • 18.

    Anna Kingsley
    Former slave who became a major slave owner in Florida and Haiti
    Overview: Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley, born Anta Madjiguene Ndiaye, (18 June 1793 – April or May 1870) was a West African from present-day Senegal who was enslaved and sold in Cuba. She became the wife of plantation ...
    Date of birth: 1793
    Date of death: 1870
    Age: 76 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Socialite
    Gender: Female
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    Women slaves 13T
    Women slave owners 73T
    Kingsley-Ndiaye family 4T
  • 19.

    Olivia Ward Bush
    American writer
    Olivia Ward Bush
    Overview: Olivia Ward Bush-Banks (née Olivia Ward; May 23, 1869 – 1944) was an American author, poet and journalist of African-American and Montaukett Native American descent. Ward celebrated both of her heritages ...
    Date of birth: 23 May 1869
    Date of death: 1944
    Age: 74 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    Writers from New Rochelle, New York 93T
    20th-century American women 4,137T
    20th-century American journalists 2,165T
  • 20.

    Amanda Smith
    American slave
    Amanda Smith
    Overview: Amanda Berry Smith (January 23, 1837 – February 24, 1915) was a former slave who funded The Amanda Smith Orphanage and Industrial Home for Abandoned and Destitute Colored Children. She was referred ...
    Date of birth: 23 January 1837
    Date of death: 24 February 1915
    Age: 78 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Other
    Gender: Female
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    19th-century American slaves 304T
    Former slaves 29T
    Founders of orphanages 14T
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