-
Jupiter Hammon
Jupiter Hammon was born into slavery on Long Island, New York. -
Birth of Venture Smith
Venture Smith, originally named Broteer Furro, was born somewhere in West Africa to a prince who had several wifes. -
Birth of Phillis Wheatly
Phillis Weatly is born in West African. However, her exact birth date is not known. -
Briton Hammon is Published
Briton Hammon publishes The Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man in Boston. It is one of the oldest known African American autobiographies. -
An Evening Thought- Jupiter Hammon
Jupiter Hammon's poem "An Evening Thought. Salvation by Christ with Penitential Cries" is published and he becomes the first known published African American writer in America. -
Venture Smith is Free!
Venture Smith is finally able to buy his own freedom for seventy-one pounds and two shillings. -
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
Phillis Wheatly publishes Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral in London. -
Phillis Wheatly Dies
Phillis Wheatly dies from child birth complications at the age of 31. -
Birth of David Walker
David Walker was born a free man in Wilmington, North Carolina to an enslaved father and free mother. -
George Horton is Born
George Moses Horton is born into slvery on a tabacco farm in Chatham County, North Carolina. -
Maria Stewart Born
Maria Stewart is born in Hartford, Connecticut. -
Venture Smith Dies
Venture Smith dies in Haddam Neck, Connecticut on his own farm. -
Jupiter Hammon's Death
Although the exact date of Jupuer Hammon's death is unknown, it is known that he died before 1806 -
Martin R. Delany Born
Martin R. Delany is born to a free mother and enslaved father in Charles Town, West Virginia. Because his mother is free he is bor free. However, when he was young, people tried to enslave him, his mother, and his sister. Thankfully, his mother was able to fight for their freedom though. -
Frances E. W. Harper is Born
Frances E. W. Harper is born in Baltimore, Maryland to free parents. However, her mother dies when she is three years old and she was then raised by her aunt and uncle. -
George Horton is Published
Horton's first collection of poetry, The Hope of Liberty, is published. -
Robert A. Young Publishes Ethiopian Manifesto
Robert A. Young Publishes Ethiopian Manifesto -
Appeal To the Coloured Citizens of the World
David Walker's Appeal To the Coloured Citizens of the World was published by a Boston printer. A price was put on his head by southern slave owners. -
David Walker's Death
David Walker dies in Charlestown, MA a few months before his yongest son was born. -
Frances Harper Publishes
Harper's second book Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects is published. Her first book, Forest Leaves, was published in 1845 but has been lost. -
Martin Delany Travels to Liberia and London
Martin Delany travels to Liberia in order to start a new black nation. However his plans never worked out. After leaving Liberia, he went to London and as honored by the International Statistical Congress. -
Maria Stewart Dies
Maria Stewart dies in Washington DC. -
George Horton Dies
Horton dies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he moved to after the Civil War. -
Martin R. Delany Dies
Martin R. Delany dies of tuberculosis in Charleston. -
Frances Harper Dies
Frances Harper Dies
