Sally Hemings

Sally Hemings was an enslaved house servant owned by Thomas Jefferson, who is believed to have fathered at least six of Hemings’s children.

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Mary Aggie

Mary Aggie was an enslaved woman who became a principal in a court case that changed Virginia‘s statute law.

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Virginia Estelle Randolph

Virginia Estelle Randolph, born of formerly enslaved parents in Richmond, was a pioneering educator, community health advocate, organizational leader, and humanitarian.

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Mary Richards Bowser

Mary Richards Bowser was born into slavery and later became a missionary to Liberia, a Union spy in the Confederate White House during the American Civil War (1861–1865), and a teacher at freedmen’s schools.

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