Elizabeth Key Grinstead

Elizabeth Key Grinstead

Enslaved woman in colonial America (1630–1665)
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Elizabeth Key Grinstead (or Greenstead) (1630 – January 20, 1665) was one of the first black people of the Thirteen Colonies to sue for freedom from slavery and win. Key won her freedom and that of her infant son John Grinstead on July 21, 1656, in the colony of Virginia.

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Elizabeth Key Grinstead was born on 1630. She is best known as an activist. Grinstead's country of citizenship (nationality) is American.

You can find people similar to Elizabeth Key Grinstead by visiting our lists 17th-century African-American women and 17th-century American slaves.

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