John Graweere also known as John Gowen (ca. 1615–living 1641)[a] was one of the First Africans in Virginia, who was a servant who earned enough money to pay for his son's freedom. He filed a lawsuit to free his son, arguing that he wanted to raise him as a Christian. The court agreed and freed the son.
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JohnGraweere also known as John Gowen (ca. 1615–living 1641) was one of the First Africans in Virginia, who was a servant who earned enough money to pay...
Ndongo (as were others among the First Africans in Virginia, such as JohnGraweere and Angela). The two first appear in a record of sale in 1640 to Captain...
court case, JohnGraweere, an indentured servant, filed a petition to purchase his son. The boy was born to an enslaved woman. Graweere wanted to raise...
Travis farm where Turner was enslaved. However, in February 1831, Reese's son John used Turner's son as collateral for a family debt. One historian notes that...
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sequence of poems in Olio (2016) by Tyehimba Jess. The poems are adapted from John Berryman's The Dream Songs. Brown and his story is featured on the 2019 Kevin...
John Wayles (January 31, 1715 – May 28, 1773) was a colonial American planter, slave trader and lawyer in colonial Virginia. He is historically best known...
John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the tenth president of the United States from 1841 to...
com/smart-news/horrible-fate-john-casor-180962352/#TewjfFASFy7jWzhh.99 Archived June 7, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, The Horrible Fate of John Casor, The First Black...
of the 36°30′ parallel. In foreign affairs, Monroe and Secretary of State John Quincy Adams favored a policy of conciliation with Britain and a policy of...
Capitol. Among his neighbors were U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall, Aaron Burr's defense attorney John Wickham, and future U.S. Senator Benjamin Watkins...
freedom from slavery and win. Key won her freedom and that of her infant son, John Grinstead, on July 21, 1656, in the Colony of Virginia. Key based her suit...
1678 and 1679 and inherited the plantation when his elder half-brother, John Carter Jr., died in 1690. He married Judith Armistead of Hesse in 1688. Following...
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descendants by the time of the American Revolution. In 2007, Linda Heywood and John Thornton used "newly available data from the DuBois Institute and Cambridge...
John Casor (surname also recorded as Cazara and Corsala), a servant in Northampton County in the Colony of Virginia, in 1655 became one of the first people...
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John Armfield (1797–1871) was an American slave trader. He was the co-founder of Franklin & Armfield, "the largest slave trading firm" in the United States...
the movement to ratify the Constitution and joined Alexander Hamilton and John Jay in writing The Federalist Papers, a series of pro-ratification essays...
decisive victories of the war, destroying the army of Confederate General John Bell Hood, his former student at West Point, at the Battle of Nashville....
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