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Elizabeth Key Grinstead

American slave · United States · On the map · Activists · Lived 1630 to 1665 · aged 35

Elizabeth Key Grinstead was one of the first mixed race 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.

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Lived 1630 to 1665 · aged 35