Famous Slaves

• Attucks, Crispus

  The African-American killed in the Boston Massacre

• Kinte, Kunta

  Hero of Roots

• Spartacus

  The gladiator who led a slave army against the legions of Rome

• Turner, Nat

  Leader of the 1831 slave rebellion

• Wheatley, Phillis

  The poet who was the first published black woman in America

See: Index by Occupation