Nicholas Biddle
Nicholas Biddle, an escaped slave born around 1796 in Delaware, is recognized as the first man to shed blood in the Civil War. Little is...
Col. Joshua John Ward
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Colonel Joshua John Ward was a wealthy plantation owner and politician who lived in the 19th century in South Carolina. He was born in 1800...
Robert F.W. Allston
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Robert Francis Withers Allston was a 19th-century American politician and planter who was born in Georgetown, South Carolina in 1801. He came from a wealthy...
Col. Joseph A. S. Acklen
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Colonel Joseph A. S. Acklen was an American plantation owner and businessman who lived in the mid-19th century. He was born in Huntsville, Alabama, in...
William Aiken
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William Aiken was an American businessman and politician who lived in the 19th century. He was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1806, and he...
Benjamin Montgomery
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Benjamin Montgomery was born into slavery in 1819 in Loudon County, Virginia. He was sold to Joseph E. Davis, a Mississippi planter. Davis was the...
Sarah Elisabeth Goode
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Sarah Elisabeth Goode holds a significant place in history as one of the first African-American women to receive a patent from the United States government....
Norbert Rillieux
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Norbert Rillieux was a brilliant student of thermodynamics who became famous for devising evaporators for sugar cane, revolutionizing the sugar-refining industry, and easing the labor...
Sarah Boone
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Sarah Boone was a 19th century African American dressmaker who was awarded a patent for her improved ironing board. Sarah Boone was an African American...