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Jupiter Hammon was born into slavery on Long Island, New York.
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Venture Smith, originally named Broteer Furro, was born somewhere in West Africa to a prince who had several wifes.
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Phillis Weatly is born in West African. However, her exact birth date is not known.
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Briton Hammon publishes The Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man in Boston. It is one of the oldest known African American autobiographies.
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Jupiter Hammon's poem "An Evening Thought. Salvation by Christ with Penitential Cries" is published and he becomes the first known published African American writer in America.
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Venture Smith is finally able to buy his own freedom for seventy-one pounds and two shillings.
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Phillis Wheatly publishes Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral in London.
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Phillis Wheatly dies from child birth complications at the age of 31.
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David Walker was born a free man in Wilmington, North Carolina to an enslaved father and free mother.
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George Moses Horton is born into slvery on a tabacco farm in Chatham County, North Carolina.
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Maria Stewart is born in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Venture Smith dies in Haddam Neck, Connecticut on his own farm.
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Although the exact date of Jupuer Hammon's death is unknown, it is known that he died before 1806
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Martin R. Delany is born to a free mother and enslaved father in Charles Town, West Virginia. Because his mother is free he is bor free. However, when he was young, people tried to enslave him, his mother, and his sister. Thankfully, his mother was able to fight for their freedom though.
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Frances E. W. Harper is born in Baltimore, Maryland to free parents. However, her mother dies when she is three years old and she was then raised by her aunt and uncle.
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Horton's first collection of poetry, The Hope of Liberty, is published.
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Robert A. Young Publishes Ethiopian Manifesto
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David Walker's Appeal To the Coloured Citizens of the World was published by a Boston printer. A price was put on his head by southern slave owners.
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David Walker dies in Charlestown, MA a few months before his yongest son was born.
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Harper's second book Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects is published. Her first book, Forest Leaves, was published in 1845 but has been lost.
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Martin Delany travels to Liberia in order to start a new black nation. However his plans never worked out. After leaving Liberia, he went to London and as honored by the International Statistical Congress.
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Maria Stewart dies in Washington DC.
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Horton dies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he moved to after the Civil War.
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Martin R. Delany dies of tuberculosis in Charleston.
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Frances Harper Dies
