Title: The freedmen's book
First published: 1866
Description: Inspiring biographies of successful former slaves.
Subjects: African Americans, Freedmen, Biography, Afro-Americans, Freed persons, united states, African americans, history, African americans, biography, Negroes, Reconstruction, citizenship, Freedman's Aid Association, freed slaves, American, biographies, poetry, speeches, Freed persons
People: Toussaint Louverture (1743?-1803), James Forten (1766-1842), Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780), Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806), William Boen (1735-1824), Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)