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Self-emancipated American (c. 1786–aft. 1840
Moses Grandy (c. 1786 – unknown) was an African-American author, abolitionist, and, for more than the first four decades of his life, an enslaved person
Moses_Grandy
African-American abolitionist (1822–1913)
Harriet "Moses" Tubman (born Araminta Ross, c. March 1822 – March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and social activist. After escaping slavery,
Harriet_Tubman
Free-born African American kidnapped by slave-traders
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Solomon_Northup
1987 novel by Toni Morrison
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Beloved_(novel)
African American enslaved woman, written about in 12 Years a Slave
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Patsey
2003 novel by Edward P. Jones
Henry's widow, who struggles to manage the plantation after his death. Moses, the overseer, who dreams of taking Henry's place. Fern Elston, a free Black
The_Known_World
Movement to end slavery
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Abolitionism
1976 novel by Alex Haley
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Roots:_The_Saga_of_an_American_Family
1853 memoir by Solomon Northup
Jordan Winston Early Sarah Jane Woodson Early Peter Fossett David George Moses Grandy Lear Green William Green William Grimes Josiah Henson Fountain Hughes
Twelve_Years_a_Slave
American educator, author, orator and adviser (1856–1915)
threatening to blow up the Pierpont Morgan Library. The role was played by Moses Gunn in the 1981 film adaptation. The fictional version also featured in
Booker_T._Washington
Work of fiction, published in 1688
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Oroonoko
American song
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Jimmy_Crack_Corn
1979 novel by Octavia E. Butler
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Kindred_(novel)
Black British abolitionist and writer (c. 1745 – 1797)
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Olaudah_Equiano
Slave trade between Africa and the West
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Atlantic_slave_trade
Ownership of people as property
from the original on April 11, 2021. Retrieved November 15, 2022. Finley, Moses I. (1980). Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology. Viking Press. p. 71. ISBN 9780670122776
Slavery
Title character of Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Uncle_Tom
2013 film directed by Steve McQueen
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12_Years_a_Slave_(film)
Genre of propaganda literature
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Captivity_narrative
Autobiographical accounts of enslaved persons
of Charles Ball, A Black Man, Lewistown, 1836 Moses Roper, A Narrative of Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper from American Slavery, London, 1837 "Recollections
Slave_narrative
1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Uncle_Tom's_Cabin
occurring between 1740 and 1742. Rhode Island Quakers, associated with Moses Brown, were among the first in America to free slaves. Benjamin Rush was
Abolitionism in the United States
Abolitionism_in_the_United_States
American abolitionist and writer
William L., North Carolina Slave Narratives: The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy & Thomas H. Jones (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina
Moses_Roper
1859 play by Dion Boucicault
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The_Octoroon
1861 autobiography by Harriet Jacobs
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents_in_the_Life_of_a_Slave_Girl
What's in a name? Moses Grandy Trail, Virginian-Pilot, PilotOnline, retrieved April 20, 2013 Mitchell, Samantha (2013). "Moses Grandy". NCPEDIA. Retrieved
History of slavery in North Carolina
History_of_slavery_in_North_Carolina
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Slavery_in_the_United_States
2016 novel by Colson Whitehead
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The Underground Railroad (novel)
The_Underground_Railroad_(novel)
American slave, later abolitionist speaker and showman
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Henry_Box_Brown
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Treatment of slaves in the United States
Treatment_of_slaves_in_the_United_States
Book by Zora Neale Hurston
Jordan Winston Early Sarah Jane Woodson Early Peter Fossett David George Moses Grandy Lear Green William Green William Grimes Josiah Henson Fountain Hughes
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
Barracoon:_The_Story_of_the_Last_"Black_Cargo"
American abolitionist and writer (1809–1889)
was publisher of the American edition of the Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy. Johnson wrote a biography of his friend and colleague called Garrison:
Oliver_Johnson_(writer)
of Ideas Vol. 27, No. 3 (Jul–Sep 1966), pp. 323–42 JSTOR 2708589 Finley, Moses, ed. Slavery in Classical Antiquity (1960) Westermann, William L. The Slave
History_of_slavery
Surname list
American landscape architect and educator John Grandy (1913–2004), Royal Air Force officer Moses Grandy (c. 1786 – ?), American writer and abolitionist
Grandy_(surname)
Author of the 1865 ''Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master''
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Jordan_Anderson
1956 book by Kenneth M. Stampp
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The_Peculiar_Institution
1797 novel by Royall Tyler
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The_Algerine_Captive
1868 biography of Tubman by Sarah H. Bradford
Harriet, the Moses of her People, originally published as Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman, is an 1868 biography of Harriet Tubman written by Sarah
Harriet, the Moses of her People
Harriet,_the_Moses_of_her_People
1971 Italian mondo film by Franco Prosperi and Gualtiero Jacopetti
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Goodbye_Uncle_Tom
American writer (1846–1916)
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Wallace_Turnage
Autobiography
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative_of_the_Life_of_Frederick_Douglass
Novel by Alex Haley and David Stevens
Jordan Winston Early Sarah Jane Woodson Early Peter Fossett David George Moses Grandy Lear Green William Green William Grimes Josiah Henson Fountain Hughes
Queen: The Story of an American Family
Queen:_The_Story_of_an_American_Family
Mameluke of Joachim Murat
Jordan Winston Early Sarah Jane Woodson Early Peter Fossett David George Moses Grandy Lear Green William Green William Grimes Josiah Henson Fountain Hughes
Nunzio Otello Francesco Gioacchino
Nunzio_Otello_Francesco_Gioacchino
19th-century Puerto Rican slave leader
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Marcos_Xiorro
English writer (1735–1785)
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Elizabeth_Marsh
Islamic scholar, enslaved in the United States
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Omar_ibn_Said
Haitian-American philanthropist
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Juliette_Toussaint
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List of films featuring slavery
List_of_films_featuring_slavery
American former slave (1812–1897)
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Lewis_Clarke
Moroccan prince converted to Catholicism
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Baldassare_Diego_Loyola
Boston Massacre victim (1723–1770)
militiaman named Moses Peter Attucks, living in nearby Leicester, is described as a 'negro slave of John White; elsewhere he is listed as Moses Attucks. Jacob
Crispus_Attucks
American slavery survivor and minister (1804–1891)
(abolitionist) Thomas Dalton (abolitionist) Hosea Easton (abolitionist, minister) Moses Grandy (abolitionist, slave memoirist) Leonard Grimes (abolitionist, minister)
Thomas_James_(minister)
1783 British document
recorded in the Book of Negroes include Boston King, Harry Washington, Moses Wilkinson and Cato Perkins. As the Book of Negroes was recorded separately
Book_of_Negroes
American inventor, activist, professional dressmaker and writer (1818–1907)
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Elizabeth_Keckley
Enslaved woman who escaped to freedom by mailing herself in a box (c. 1839–1860)
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Lear_Green
African-American slave, soldier and author
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Peter_Bruner
1990 novel by Charles Johnson
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Middle_Passage_(novel)
African American soldier in Revolutionary War (1753–1868)
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James Robinson (soldier, born 1753)
James_Robinson_(soldier,_born_1753)
English author
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Thomas_Pellow
Cuban writer and slave (1797-1853)
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Juan_Francisco_Manzano
enslaved man murdered in Kentucky on the night of December 15–16, 1811. George Moses Horton (1797–1884), the first African-American author; first book of poetry
List_of_slaves
Slavery by type
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House_slave
First official slave in the Thirteen Colonies
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John_Punch_(slave)
Bodyguard of Napoleon
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Roustam_Raza
American songwriter
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Wallace_Willis
Ottoman escapee slave
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George_of_Hungary
American abolitionist (1818–1895)
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Frederick_Douglass
Collection of African-American spirituals
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Slave Songs of the United States
Slave_Songs_of_the_United_States
Afro-Cuban former slave and resistance fighter (1868-1973)
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Esteban_Montejo
1856 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
Dred:_A_Tale_of_the_Great_Dismal_Swamp
Senegalese prince (1701–1773)
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Ayuba_Suleiman_Diallo
American abolitionist newspaper (1831–1865)
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The_Liberator_(newspaper)
American slave (1859–1957)
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Fountain_Hughes
18th-century enslaved African man (c. 1705–1775),
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Ukawsaw_Gronniosaw
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List of last survivors of American slavery
List_of_last_survivors_of_American_slavery
Laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850
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Fugitive slave laws in the United States
Fugitive_slave_laws_in_the_United_States
American diplomat
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James_Leander_Cathcart
German traveller and writer (1380 – c. 1440)
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Johann_Schiltberger
Aspect of U.S. slavery
August 31, 1853. p. 3. Retrieved June 21, 2024. Grandy, Moses. "Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America".
Slave_pass
French memoir writer
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Antoine_Qaurtier
American abolitionist and writer (c. 1799–1874)
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Paul_Jennings_(abolitionist)
Swedish memoirist (1698–1733)
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Lovisa_von_Burghausen
Abolitionist and author (1793–1869)
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Austin_Steward
1789 autobiography of Olaudah Equiano
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
The_Interesting_Narrative_of_the_Life_of_Olaudah_Equiano
Swedish artist (1684–1736)
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Brigitta_Scherzenfeldt
African-American woman formerly enslaved by a Muscogee man
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Lucinda_Davis
American abolitionist and minister
Retrieved February 8, 2008. Tanser, H. A. (1943). "Josiah Henson, the Moses of His People". The Journal of Negro Education. 12 (4): 630–632. doi:10
Josiah_Henson
New Deal oral history recording project
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WPA Slave Narrative Collection
WPA_Slave_Narrative_Collection
American slave
(abolitionist) Thomas Dalton (abolitionist) Hosea Easton (abolitionist, minister) Moses Grandy (abolitionist, slave memoirist) Leonard Grimes (abolitionist, minister)
Shadrach_Minkins
African-American abolitionist (1814–1884)
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William_Wells_Brown
African-American abolitionist and writer (d. 1897)
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Harriet_Jacobs
Slaves on Mount Vernon estate
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List of enslaved people of Mount Vernon
List_of_enslaved_people_of_Mount_Vernon
American clergy and writer
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Boston_King
Haitian-American philanthropist (1766–1853)
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Pierre_Toussaint
1855 autobiography by Frederick Douglass
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My_Bondage_and_My_Freedom
15th century Serbian soldier and memoirist
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Konstantin_Mihailović
Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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A_Key_to_Uncle_Tom's_Cabin
American fugitive slaves and abolitionists
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Ellen_and_William_Craft
Historical figure
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David_George_(Baptist)
American minister (1804–1867)
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Noah_Davis_(Baptist_minister)
MOSES GRANDY
MOSES GRANDY
Male
English
Anglicized form of Greek Ioses, JOSES means "exalted." In the bible, this is the name of a brother of Jesus.
Male
English
Short form of English Moses, MOSE means "drawn out."
Male
Greek
Variant spelling of Greek Moyses, MOUSES means "drawn out." In the bible, this is the name of the leader who brought the Israelites out of bondage and led them to the promised land.Â
Boy/Male
Hungarian
from the water'.
Male
Hebrew
 Medieval Jewish form of Hebrew Moshe, MOSS means "drawn out." Compare with another form of Moss.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from a vernacular form of the personal name Moses.
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Irish, Portuguese, Swedish
Drawn out of the Water; Saved; Child; Taken from Water; Saviour; Drawn out
Male
English
Anglicized form of Hebrew Moshe and Greek Mouses, MOSES means "drawn out." In the bible, this is the name of the leader who brought the Israelites out of bondage and led them to the promised land.Â
Boy/Male
Armenian, Australian
Moses
Boy/Male
Biblical
Raised; who pardons.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from Mole 3 and 4.Catalan : habitation name from any of various minor places named Moles, from the plural of mola (see Mola).
Male
English
 English surname transferred to forename use, derived from medieval Jewish Moss (2), MOSS means "drawn out." Compare with another form of Moss.
Boy/Male
American, Australian, Christian, Finnish, Hebrew
Saviour; Taken from Water; Moses; Saved from the Water; Drawn out
Male
Greek
(Μωσῆς) Greek form of Hebrew Moshe, MOYSES means "drawn out." In the bible, this is the name of the leader who brought the Israelites out of bondage and led them to the promised land.Â
Boy/Male
American, Australian, French, Hebrew, Latin, Polish, Spanish
Drawn out of the Water; Spanish Form of Moses from the Water
Boy/Male
Biblical American Egyptian Hebrew
Taken out, drawn forth'.
Male
Greek
(Ἰωσῆς) Greek name IOSES means "exalted." In the bible, this is the name of several characters, including a brother of Jesus.
Surname or Lastname
English and Welsh
English and Welsh : from the personal name Moss, a Middle English vernacular form of the Biblical name Moses.English and Scottish : topographic name for someone who lived by a peat bog, Middle English, Old English mos, or a habitational name from a place named with this word. (It was not until later that the vocabulary word came to denote the class of plants characteristic of a peat-bog habitat, under the influence of the related Old Norse word mosi.)Americanized form of Moses or some other like-sounding Jewish surname.Irish (Ulster) : part translation of Gaelic Ó Maolmhóna ‘descendant of Maolmhóna’, a personal name composed of the elements maol ‘servant’, ‘tonsured one’, ‘devotee’ + a second element which was assumed to be móin (genitive móna) ‘moorland’, ‘peat bog’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Moores.Dutch : from the personal name Maurits (see Morris).
Biblical
taken out; drawn forthto drawdrawn;drawn forth, taken out of water or a son;
MOSES GRANDY
MOSES GRANDY
Surname or Lastname
Swedish
Swedish : ornamental name formed with häll ‘rock’, ‘stone’ + the adjectival suffix -én, a derivative of Latin -enius.English : variant of Ellen 1 (with inorganic initial H-).English : variant of Hillian.Irish (west Cork) : variant of Heelan.
Male
English
Anglicized form of Hebrew Abiyshay, ABISHAI means "my father is Jesse" or "my father is a gift." In the bible, this is the name of the eldest son of David's sister Zeruiah. He was the only one to accompany David when he went to the camp of Saul (1 Sam. 26:5-12).
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, English, French, German, Irish, Netherlands, Swedish, Swiss, Teutonic
Mighty with a Spear; Spear Warrior; Ruler of the Spear
Boy/Male
Welsh
Legendary son of Caw.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Tamil, Traditional
Goddess Durga
Boy/Male
French
With whiskers, bearded. In Norman times, when most men were clean-shaven, this nickname was given...
Female
Hungarian
Hungarian form of Greek Xenia, XÉNIA means "stranger, foreigner," but sometimes rendered "hospitable (esp. to foreigners)."
Boy/Male
Tamil
Great
Girl/Female
Australian, German, Turkish
Queen
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Winner
MOSES GRANDY
MOSES GRANDY
MOSES GRANDY
MOSES GRANDY
MOSES GRANDY
imp. & p. p.
of Moss
n.
A large flatboat, used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship.
a.
Overgrown with moss.
v. t.
To cover or overgrow with moss.
n.
Honey of roses.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Moss
n.
The largest genus of true mosses; feather moss.
n. pl.
An order or subclass of cryptogamous plants; the mosses. See Moss, and Cryptogamia.
n.
One who muses.
a.
Not according to Moses; unlike Moses or his works.
n.
A bed of roses, or place where roses grow.
n.
A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses of the Scottish border.
a.
Being before the time of Moses.
a.
Decorated with roses, or with the color of roses.
n.
One who loses.
a.
Relating to the time before Moses; as, premosaic history.
n. pl.
The Muses.
n.
A genus of mosses having white leaves slightly tinged with red or green and found growing in marshy places; bog moss; peat moss.