• Sojourner Truth - Abolitionist
































  • Harriet Tubman - Underground Railroad




































    Phillis Wheatley - Published Poet




































    Harriet Jacobs/Linda Brent - Wrote Diary of a Slave Girl



































    Sally Hemings - Matriarch of the Hemings branch of the Jefferson family




































    Ellen Craft - Disguised herself as a man husband poses as her slave to escape


























































    Maria Stewart - Born free - first woman to speak in public places


































    Jarena Lee - Born free - Delaware - leading woman minister
































    Fannie Jackson Coppin  - Coppin State - Teacher - born a slave



































  • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper - Free Black - published poet