Olaudah Equiano
Fredrick Douglass, a prominent African-American abolitionist and statesman, was enslaved as a young child on a plantation in Maryland, United States. He eventually escaped slavery and became a leading voice in the fight against slavery and for equal rights for all.
Phyllis Wheatley, a brilliant young African slave in Boston, wrote Columbia. and Columbia was a popular illustration in newspapers and magazines of the time.
The clue's in the question. Neil Young wrote it.
Frederick Douglas was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland. He would go on to become a leader in the abolitionist movement, and help many African Americans.
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"crispus attucks was born into slavery in framingham, Massachusetts, around 1723. it is believed that attucks was the son of an African-American father and a native American mother. as a young man, attucks escaped slavery by running away to sea." -McDougal Littell
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote The Sorrows of Young Werther.
Since he was a young he thought of slavery as wrong doing.
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The African Luhya term for the English word 'young' is Omuraka.
The Young Friends Society of African Diasporan Institutions was created in 2007.