1820s to 1883 - Sojourner Truth - Abolitionist and Feminist (watch)
Sojourner Truth, born Isabella (Belle) Baumfree; c. 1797 – November 26, 1883) was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights...
1822 - Denmark Vesey Conspiracy
After one loyal slave told his master about a plot to seize the city of Charlestown, South Carolina and kill all the whites, local...
1831 - Nat Turner’s Rebellion (watch)
Born on Oct. 2, 1800, in Southampton County, Va., the week before Gabriel was hanged, Nat Turner impressed family and friends with an...
1840s to 1920s - Elijah McCoy (Inventor, "The Real McCoy"
Elijah McCoy was a 19th century African-American inventor best known for inventing lubrication devices used to make train travel more...
1840s to 1880s - Martin Robison Delany (Editor, Civil Rights Activist, Doctor, Author)
Abolitionist Martin Robison Delany was both a physician and newspaper editor, and became one of the most influential and successful...
1840s to 1895 - Frederick Douglas
Who Was Frederick Douglass? Abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass was born into slavery sometime around 1818 in Talbot County, Maryland....
1840s to 1880s - Henry Highland Garnet
Henry Highland Garnet -- born a slave, well educated, known for his skills as an orator, a leading abolitionist, a clergyman -- stood...
1846 - Frederick Douglass publishes the North Star newspaper.
The North Star, later Frederick Douglass’ Paper, antislavery newspaper published by African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass....
1849 onward - Harriet Tubman (watch)
Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's "conductors." During a ten-year span she made 19 trips...
1850s - Harriet Tubman in the Civil War
The 1850s saw a deeper divide between north and south. The passage of the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 only...