EVENT

Legally freed from slavery by the owner.

See also:

• Born into Slavery
• Sold into Slavery
• Escaped from Slavery
• Slaveowners

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Aesop	Author	c. 620 BC	c. 560 BC	Purported author of Fables
Richard Allen	Religion	14-Feb-1760	26-Mar-1831	Founder, African Episcopal Methodist Church
Anton Wilhelm Amo	Philosopher	1703	1784	First European-educated African philosopher
Joseph Cinqué	Activist	c. 1813	c. 1879	Led the Amistad slave rebellion
Epictetus	Philosopher	c. 55 AD	c. 135 AD	Stoic, wrote Encheiridion
Harriet Ann Jacobs	Author	1813	7-Mar-1897	Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Toussaint L'Ouverture	Military	20-May-1743	7-Apr-1803	Led the 1791 Slave Rebellion
James Armistead Lafayette	Spy	10-Dec-1748	9-Aug-1830	American spy during the Revolution
John R. Lynch	Politician	10-Sep-1847	2-Nov-1939	Congressman from Mississippi
James C. Napier	Government	9-Jun-1845	21-Apr-1940	Founder of Nashville One-Cent Savings Bank
Juan de Pareja	Painter	c. 1606	1670	Velázquez's slave turned painter
Phaedrus	Author	c. 15 BC	50 AD	Roman fabulist
Joseph Rainey	Politician	21-Jun-1832	1-Aug-1887	Congressman from South Carolina, 1870-79
Dred Scott	Victim	c. 1799	17-Sep-1858	Slave denied freedom by US Supreme Court
Robert Smalls	Politician	5-Apr-1839	23-Feb-1915	Slave elected to Congress from South Carolina
Terence	Playwright	c. 195 BC	c. 159 BC	Comic playwright of Ancient Rome
Josiah Walls	Politician	30-Dec-1842	15-May-1905	Congressman from Florida, 1871-76
Booker T. Washington	Educator	5-Apr-1856	14-Nov-1915	Founder, Tuskegee Institute
Phillis Wheatley	Poet	c. 1743	5-Dec-1784	First prominent African-American poet
George Henry White	Politician	18-Dec-1852	28-Dec-1918	Congressman from North Carolina, 1897-1901

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