Elizabeth Key Grinstead - Wikipedia
Elizabeth Key Grinstead (or Greenstead) (c. 1630 or 1632 – 1665) [1][2][3] was one of the first Black people in the Thirteen Colonies to sue for freedom from slavery and win. Key won her freedom and that of her infant son, John Grinstead, on July 21, 1656, in the Colony of Virginia.
Elizabeth Key Grinstead (1630–1665) - Blackpast
2016年7月14日 · Elizabeth Key Grinstead was one of the first women of African American ancestry in the North American colonies to sue for her freedom and win. Key won freedom for herself and her infant son, John Grinstead II, in the colony of Virginia on July 21, 1656.
Life Story: Elizabeth Key Grinstead (ca. 1630 - ca. 1665)
Why did Elizabeth Key Grinstead’s identity as a mixed-race woman complicate her status as a free woman? How did Elizabeth Key Grinstead’s freedom suit potentially influence laws about slavery and race in colonial Virginia?
Elizabeth Key and Her History-Changing Lawsuit - ThoughtCo
2018年2月3日 · Elizabeth had a second son by Grinstead, named William Grinstead II. (Neither son’s birth date is recorded.) Grinstead died in 1661, after only five years of marriage. Elizabeth then married another English settler named John Parse or Pearce.
July 21, 1656: Elizabeth Key Wins Her Freedom
On July 21, 1656, Elizabeth Key became the first woman of African descent in the North American colonies to sue for her freedom and win. Key was born in 1630 in Warwick County, Virginia, to an enslaved African woman. Her father was a white planter named Thomas Key.
Elizabeth (Key) Grinstead (abt. 1630 - aft. 1670) - WikiTree
2024年10月10日 · Explore genealogy for Elizabeth (Key) Grinstead born abt. 1630 Warwick River, Virginia died 1670 Northumberland, Virginia including parents + descendants + 2 genealogist comments + more in the free family tree community.
Elizabeth Key - Enslaved.org
Elizabeth Key was a slave who successfully petitioned for freedom in early colonial Virginia. Key was born near present-day Newport News, Virginia, to a (probably African-born) slave woman and Thomas Key, a white Englishman and burgess in Virginia's colonial assembly.
Elizabeth Key (Kaye) | Slavery and Remembrance
Elizabeth Key (Kaye) Colonial Williamsburg actors portray an enslaved bi-racial woman, Elizabeth Key, and her husband and attorney, William Greensted. William represented Elizabeth, before the General Assembly, where she successfully sued for her freedom in 1655.
Elizabeth Key Grinstead (b. 1630 - d. c. after 1665) - Blogger
Elizabeth Grimstead was one of the first women of African ancestry in the North American colonies to sue for her freedom from slavery and win. Elizabeth Key won her freedom and that of her infant son John Grinstead on July 21, 1656 in the colony of Virginia.
Elizabeth Key (fl. 1655-1660) Biography - Library of Virginia
Elizabeth Key (fl. 1655–1660) was a principal in one of the important early court cases that shaped the evolving law of slavery in seventeenth-century Virginia. Her mother's name is not preserved in the surviving documents, but it is known that she was of African birth or descent and that an English planter, Thomas Key, claimed ownership of her.