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May 24, 2016 · While the patriots battled for freedom from Great Britain, upwards of 20,000 formerly enslaved people declared their own personal independence and fought on the side of the British.
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- Toussaint L'Ouverture. Image source, NAtional. Toussaint L'Ouverture was a former slave who helped lead the revolution against the slave owners in Haiti.
- James Somerset. Image source, National Archives. James Somerset was brought to England from Jamaica in 1769, but he escaped and used the British courts against his owners, to stop him being sent back to Jamaica.
- Mary Prince. Media caption, Olaudah Equiano and Mary Prince were two former slaves who wrote about their experiences. Mary Prince was born into slavery in around 1788, on Bermuda, off the coast of the United States, and was taken away from her family at the age of ten.
- Frederick Douglas. Frederick Douglass was an African American slave who managed to escape from slavery at the age of 20. After he escaped in 1838, he got married, changed his surname, and joined the anti-slavery movement.
Feb 3, 2023 · In the autumn of 1739, a group of enslaved African men and women in South Carolina staged the most audacious bid for freedom that British colonists on the North American mainland had ever seen.
The print features an enslaved person on their knees, looking upward and pleading to the presumably White reader, “am I not a man and a brother?” Although calling for abolition, the enslaved person is undermined; they are not shown as a full human, but as a subjugated person.
Nov 16, 2020 · Johnson, whose courage took freedom for her and her sons, and whose testimony rescued seven men from false charges, settled quietly with her sons in Boston.
Mar 22, 2019 · Elizabeth Freeman, then known only as “Bett,” was an enslaved woman who understood the irony in the declaration right away. As she watched the men around her declare freedom from oppressive...
Apr 25, 2024 · Previously enslaved men and women received the rights of citizenship and the “equal protection” of the Constitution in the 14th Amendment and the right to vote in the 15th Amendment, but...
