Charlotte Forten Grimké
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Charlotte Louise Bridges Grimké was an African-American abolitionist, poet, and educator. She grew up in a prominent abolitionist family in Philadelphia. She taught school for years, including to free
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Grimké assisted with her husband's ministry at Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church in Washington, DC, shown here as it was in about 1899.
The Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church today
Charlotte L. Forten Grimké, 1870s
Samuel Johnston
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Samuel Johnston was an American planter, lawyer, grand master of Freemasons, slave holder, and statesman from Chowan County, North Carolina. He represented North Carolina in both the Continental Congr
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…south. She was the daughter of wealthy planter James Cathcart Johnston of Hayes Plantation, Edenton, North Carolina, and the granddaughter of Governor Samuel Johnston of North Carolina. In 1832, James Cathcart Johnston anonymously emancipated Mary, who was 17 years old, along with her mother and sisters, with the…
Samuel Johnston Governeur von Nord Karolina