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    Elizabeth Key Grinstead (or Greenstead) (1630 – January 20, 1665) was one of the first Black people in the Thirteen Colonies to sue for freedom from slavery...
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  • Enniskillen) Burt Grinstead (born 1988), U.S. actor Charles Walder Grinstead (1860–1930), English tennis player Elizabeth Key Grinstead (1630–c. after 1665)...
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    1836–1890) William D. Gibbons (1825–1886) John Graweere (living 1641) Elizabeth Key Grinstead (Greenstead) (1630–1665) Left, husband of Jane Webb (fl. 1704–1727)...
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    (1815–1847), Robert (1816–1877), John (1819–1896), Letitia (1821–1907), Elizabeth (1823–1850), Anne (1825–1825), Alice (1827–1854) and Tazewell (1830–1874)...
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    with some French, German, Irish and African American ancestry. Elizabeth Key Grinstead, one of the first African Americans in the North American colonies...
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    of slaves List of civil rights leaders Nathaniel Booth (slave) Elizabeth Key Grinstead Sojourner Truth Variously also Bet or Mum Bett. Blanck, Emily (2002)...
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    make chattels of English subjects. In 1656, multiracial woman Elizabeth Key Grinstead, then classified by an owner's estate as being "Negro" and thus...
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    Ground," p. 15 Klein, 43–44. Taunya Lovell Banks, "Dangerous Woman: Elizabeth Key's Freedom Suit – Subjecthood and Racialized Identity in Seventeenth Century...
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  • in 1921. He is a descendant of William & Elizabeth Key Grinstead Born in Glasgow, Kentucky in 1854, Grinstead had a common school education in Barren County...
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    New York, New York: Viking/Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-200210-0. Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling (2012). A Slave in the White House : Paul Jennings and the Madisons...
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    1836–1890) William D. Gibbons (1825–1886) John Graweere (living 1641) Elizabeth Key Grinstead (Greenstead) (1630–1665) Left, husband of Jane Webb (fl. 1704–1727)...
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  • free black man, sued Robert Parker for stolen services. 1656 – Elizabeth Key Grinstead was one of the first black people to sue for freedom for alleged...
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  • 1836–1890) William D. Gibbons (1825–1886) John Graweere (living 1641) Elizabeth Key Grinstead (Greenstead) (1630–1665) Left, husband of Jane Webb (fl. 1704–1727)...
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    illness, he died in Tuskegee, Alabama on November 14, 1915. Washington was a key proponent of African-American businesses and one of the founders of the National...
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    Westmoreland County in the Colony of Virginia, to (Andrew) Spence Monroe and Elizabeth Jones. The marked site is one mile (1.6 km) from the unincorporated community...
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    American novelist Elizabeth Kerr (1912–2000), American actress Elizabeth Kerr Coulson (1819–1876), English novelist Elizabeth Key Grinstead (1630–1665), enslaved...
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  • adulthood. Elizabeth, born February 24, 1752; married Francis Eppes, the first cousin or nephew of John Wayles first wife, Martha Epps Wayles. Elizabeth and...
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    classify people born to foreigners and subjects. In 1656 Virginia, Elizabeth Key Grinstead, a mixed-race woman, successfully gained her freedom and that of...
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    1836–1890) William D. Gibbons (1825–1886) John Graweere (living 1641) Elizabeth Key Grinstead (Greenstead) (1630–1665) Left, husband of Jane Webb (fl. 1704–1727)...
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    1836–1890) William D. Gibbons (1825–1886) John Graweere (living 1641) Elizabeth Key Grinstead (Greenstead) (1630–1665) Left, husband of Jane Webb (fl. 1704–1727)...
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    edition (HTML format, 207 kB, entire book on one page) Elizabeth Freeman Elizabeth Key Grinstead List of enslaved people List of women's rights activists...
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  • 1836–1890) William D. Gibbons (1825–1886) John Graweere (living 1641) Elizabeth Key Grinstead (Greenstead) (1630–1665) Left, husband of Jane Webb (fl. 1704–1727)...
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    1836–1890) William D. Gibbons (1825–1886) John Graweere (living 1641) Elizabeth Key Grinstead (Greenstead) (1630–1665) Left, husband of Jane Webb (fl. 1704–1727)...
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  • legislature defined conditions of lifetime servitude. In 1655, Elizabeth Key Grinstead, a mixed-race woman, fought and won the first freedom suit in Virginia...
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    1836–1890) William D. Gibbons (1825–1886) John Graweere (living 1641) Elizabeth Key Grinstead (Greenstead) (1630–1665) Left, husband of Jane Webb (fl. 1704–1727)...
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    the way Brown behaved during and after it, and the way it was perceived by key figures on both sides of the slavery divide. The raid did not cause the storm...
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    1836–1890) William D. Gibbons (1825–1886) John Graweere (living 1641) Elizabeth Key Grinstead (Greenstead) (1630–1665) Left, husband of Jane Webb (fl. 1704–1727)...
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  • Angeles Times. July 30, 2012. Taunya Lovell Banks, "Dangerous Woman: Elizabeth Key's Freedom Suit – Subjecthood and Racialized Identity in Seventeenth Century...
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