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Susie King Taylor - freed after the Emancipation Proclamation was in effect. She was one of many African-American women to serve with the Union army's "colored" regiments during the second half of the war.

Dave the Slave "Dave the Potter"- famous for his pottery work during the Civil War. freed after the Emancipation Proclamation was in effect.

Booker T. Washington - American educator, author, orator, and political leader. Born into slavery in Virginia, 1856. Freed, in 1865, when he and his brother and sister, migrated to West Virginia.

Author of 14 books, the most notable is "Up From Slavery".

George Washington Craver- American scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor, a brilliant mind who has been dubbed the "Black Leonardo da vinci". Born in Missouri in 1864, after slavery was abolished, George and his older brother James were raised by their former slave owner Moses Craver and his wife Susan, as their own children.

Mammy Lou -freed after the Emancipation Proclamation was in effect. Is the oldest person to appear in a film or movie. In 1918, was in the silent film, "The Glorious Adventure". Supposedly was 114, at the time.

Robert Smalls - He freed himself and his family from slavery on May 13, 1862, by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, the USS Planter, to freedom in Charleston harbor.

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