MRS. CLARA BROWN . – As space was allowed in the Denver volume of Colorado's history for the biographical sketch of one distinguished l...

ROBERT BLAKE. Contraband on board of the U.S.S. Marblehead in the engagement with the rebel batteries on Stono River, December 25, 1863; s...

Caesar Blackwell . A slave of Lowndes County, Alabama. Said to have been a full-blooded African. He was a gifted preacher. Bought by the Ba...

Bayley, Solomon , a colored preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Liberia. He was born a slave in Delaware, and, after cruel hardsh...

ALLEN, Richard , clergyman and founder of the African Methodist church, was born in 1760, of colored parents. In 1777 he joined the Methodi...

ALEXANDER, Archer , hero, was born near Richmond, Va., about 1810, a slave, and in 1831 was taken to Missouri by his master. In 1861, at th...

Absalom Jones ordained a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church, First Negro in the United States to be ordained, in any denomination [...

HORTON, George Moses , slave-poet, a fullblooded negro, was born in Chatham county, N. C., about 1798. He began to dictate verses before he...

BURNS, Anthony , fugitive slave, b. in Virginia about 1830; d. in St. Catharines, Canada, 27 July, 1862. He effected his escape from slaver...