Devin Engledew
Devin John Engledew is an undergraduate history student at the University of Washington. Having been born and raised in Seattle,Washington’s historic central district, Devin has an invested interest in the social history of the American West with a specific concentration in historic Seattle. Similarly, Devin also is interested in the subjects surrounding American history in the 19th and 20th century. Devin is expecting to graduate from the University of Washington with a B.A. in history in June of 2008 with ambitions to one day earning a professional degree in the subject and is interested in pursuing a career working in education.
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William Calvin Chase (1854-1921)
William Chase was born in 1854 to a free black family in Washington, D.C. Chase was raised in integrated neighborhoods...
William Wells Brown (ca. 1814-1884)
William Wells Brown was an African American antislavery lecturer, groundbreaking novelist, playwright, and historian. He is widely considered to have...
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932)
Charles Waddell Chesnutt was born the son of free black parents on June 20, 1858 in Cleveland, Ohio. His parents...
William Still (1821-1902)
William Still was born in Burlington County, New Jersey in 1821, as the last of eighteen children of former slaves...
Robert Purvis (1810-1898)
Robert Purvis was born on August 4, 1810 in Charleston, South Carolina, the second of three sons to a wealthy...
Bishop Alexander Walters (1858-1917)
Alexander Walters was born in 1858 into a slave family in Bardstown, Kentucky, the sixth of eight children. By the...
Jermain Wesley Loguen (1813-1872)
Image Ownership: Public Domain Jermain Wesley Loguen was born into slavery on February 5, 1813, in Tennessee. His mother was...
Perry Wilbon Howard (1877-1961)
Perry Wilbon Howard was one of the shrewdest and most enduring Southern black politicians of the early 20th Century. Howard...
