Fredrick Douglas 1. A. Fredrick Augustus Washington Bailey was born in the cabin of his grandmother Betsy Bailey. This cabin was located along the Tuckahoe Creek, in Talbot County Maryland (2). B. Fredrick Bailey was born a slave as it was law that any child born of a slave would also be a slave (43). 2.
Nefatia Montrose 2/17/12 US History 2 Black History Month Report Olaudah Equiano Olaudah Equiano (also known as Gustavus Vassa) was born in what is now Nigeria in 1745. At the feeble age of Eleven he and his sister were kidnapped from his African village, Eboe, forced to march to the coast and put on board a slave ship. They were shipped “through the arduous Middle Passage of the Atlantic Ocean”, and sold to a British planter. He was eventually resold to Captain Pascal, a British naval officer, as a present for his cousins in London. After ten years of enslavement, assisting as a merchant, and working as a seaman, Equiano purchased his own freedom.
James mother, Elizabeth died in 1808 when James was at the immature age of seven. Being so young still after his mothers death and with his father growing older, a family friend and commander by the name of David Porter informally adopted James with permission his father. James was to be trained for later on in life. Two years after being adopted James was appointed as midshipman at only nine and a half years old. While sailing with Porter on the Essex during the War of 1812, James changed his name to David after David Porter.
William Wells Brown was born near Lexington, Kentucky, in 1814. His father was George Higgins, a white plantation owner, but his mother was a black slave. "My mother's name was Elizabeth. She had seven children, Solomon, Leander, Benjamin, Joseph, Millford, Elizabeth, and myself. No two of us were children of the same father."
If you look at his life you believe in this theme. He worked from slavery and had pride in what he did and now his name is put down in history. Universal Truth Introduction-Summary Beginning Years Booker T. Washington was born a slave and owned by James Burroughs. He was born in Franklin County, Virginia in the spring of1856. His mother name is Jane, brother John and a half sister Amanda.
He started out with twenty slaves and disembarked nineteen. Summary of The Life of Olaudah Equiano Olaudah Equiano also known as Gustavas Vassa was one of the prominent Africans involved with the ablosishing of the slave trade. Equiano was born in 1745 in Eboe, in what is now Nigeria. When he was about eleven, Equiano was kidnapped. Equiano and his sisters were left at home to take care of the house and a man and woman abducted them from their homes taking them far into the woods.
A. Philip Randolph, he was an African American. His full name was Asa Philip Randolph. He was born in 1889, 15th of April. He was the younger son of James William Randolph. They were from the Crescent City in Florida.
James Mark Baldwin James Mark Baldwin was born in January, 12, 1861. Columbia, South Carolina.Baldwin was born and raised in Columbia, South Carolina. His father, who was from Connecticut, was an abolitionist and was known to purchase slaves in order to free them. During the Civil War his father moved north, but the family remained in their home until the time of Sherman's Marsh. He was educated at Princenton.
Rosa was born on February 4th, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her father, James McCauley was a carpenter and her mother, Leona Edwards, was a teacher. Growing up she was sick most of the time and was a small child. Eventually her mother and father separated. Her mother took her and her brother to live in Pine Level, a town near Montgomery.
[9] In George's youth, the Washingtons were moderately prosperous members of the Virginia gentry, of "middling rank" rather than one of the leading planter families. [10] At this time, Virginia and other southern colonies had become a slave society, in which slaveholders formed the ruling class and the economy was based on slave labor. [11] Six of George's siblings reached maturity, including two older half-brothers, Lawrence and Augustine, from his father's first marriage to Jane Butler Washington, and four full siblings, Samuel, Elizabeth (Betty), John Augustine and Charles. Three siblings died before becoming adults: his full sister Mildred died when she was about one,[12] his half-brother Butler died while an infant,[13] and his half-sister Jane died at the age of 12, when George was about 2. [12] George's father died when George was 11 years old, after which George's half-brother Lawrence became a surrogate father and role model.