What person did actor Scott Parker portray that was a 19th-century Virginia slave?
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Scott Parker (actor) W. Scott Parker III is an American actor, director, and screenwriter. He has appeared in over one-hundred plays and films working with directors such as Derrick Borte, Giancarlo Esposito, and George Clooney. Most recently he played Jefferson Calvert in the theatrical production of "Four Queens - No Trump" under the direction of Ted Lange. In recent years, Mr. Parker has gravitated toward historical films including Capt. Philip Carteret of the HMS Harwich in the film Newton's Grace, Dr. Smith (Henry Box Brown), and Gen. George Washington (produced by North Carolina Museum of History).
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Henry Box Brown Henry "Box" Brown (c. 1816 – June 15, 1897) was a 19th-century Virginia slave who escaped to freedom at the age of 33 by arranging to have himself mailed in a wooden crate in 1849 to abolitionists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Gordon (slave) Gordon, or "Whipped Peter", was an enslaved African American who escaped from a Louisiana plantation in March 1863, gaining freedom when he reached the Union camp near Baton Rouge. He became known as the subject of photographs documenting the extensive scarring of his back from whippings received in slavery. Abolitionists distributed these carte de visite photographs of Gordon throughout the United States and internationally to show the abuses of slavery.
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Virginia Brown Faire Virginia Brown Faire (June 26, 1904 – June 30, 1980) was an American silent-film actress, appearing in dramatic films and, later, in sound westerns.
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Dick Pointer Dick Pointer (before 1778 – 1827) was an American frontier hero and an African slave. He is best known for his bravery in the defence of Fort Donnally, in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, from a Shawnee attack in 1778. During the attack he used a rifle to secure the front door against attackers. Some years later, Pointer spoke before the Virginia General Assembly, requesting his own freedom in consideration for his act of bravery; he was emancipated in 1801. He died in 1827.
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Marshall Parker Marshall Joyner Parker (April 25, 1922 – November 15, 2008) was a Republican politician from the U.S. state of South Carolina.
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Virginia's Husband (1934 film) Virginia's Husband is a 1934 British comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Dorothy Boyd, Reginald Gardiner and Enid Stamp-Taylor. A woman enlists a man to pose as her husband to trick her aunt. The play by Florence Kilpatrick on which the film is based, had previously been adapted as a silent film in 1928.
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Campbell Scott Campbell Scott (born July 19, 1961) is an American actor, director, producer, and voice artist. He is known for his roles as George Tunner on "The Sheltering Sky", Boris Kuester von Jurgens-Ratenicz on "Royal Pains", Mark Usher on "House of Cards", Joseph Tobin on "Damages", and Richard Parker in "The Amazing Spider-Man" and "The Amazing Spider-Man 2", as well as numerous stage appearances.
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Matthew Ashby Matthew Ashby was born in York County, Virginia, in 1727. He is a notable and rare example of the successful escape from slavery and indentured servitude. The son of a black slave and a white indentured servant, he was born free under Virginia law, which at the time gave children the legal status of their mothers. Ashby worked around the Williamsburg area as a carter and carpenter. He was also known to deliver messages for the state, working for Governor Botetourt. Although he himself was indentured until the age of 31, by law, he managed to acquire many things that were well out of the realm of the average slave or servant, including a silver watch, candle making supplies, tea boards, and books.
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Fess Parker Fess Elisha Parker Jr. (August 16, 1924 – March 18, 2010) was an American film and television actor best known for his portrayals of Davy Crockett in the Walt Disney 1955–1956 TV miniseries and as Daniel Boone in a television series from 1964 to 1970. He was also known as a winemaker and resort owner-operator.
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Lizabeth Scott Lizabeth Virginia Scott (born Emma Matzo; September 29, 1922 – January 31, 2015) was an American actress, known for her "smoky voice" and being "the most beautiful face of film noir during the 1940s and 1950s". After understudying the role of Sabina in the original Broadway and Boston stage productions of "The Skin of Our Teeth", she emerged in such films as "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" (1946), "Dead Reckoning" (1947), "Desert Fury" (1947), and "Too Late for Tears" (1949). Of her 21 films, she was the leading lady in all but one. In addition to stage and radio, she appeared on television from the late 1940s to early 1970s.
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Scott Cooley Scott Cooley (1845 – June 1876) was an Old West Texas Ranger and later outlaw, best known for his association with gunman Johnny Ringo.
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Henry Parker (Georgia) Henry Parker (born near Savannah, Georgia, about 1690; died Isle of Hope, Georgia, about 1777) was secretary to the (governor) of Georgia 1750 until 1751. He was Colonial Governor of the state of Georgia from 1751 until 1752.
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John Punch (slave) John Punch (fl. 1630s, living 1640) was an enslaved African who lived in the Colony of Virginia during the seventeenth century. In July 1640, the Virginia Governor's Council sentenced him to serve for the remainder of his life as punishment for running away to Maryland. In contrast, two European men who ran away with him were sentenced to longer indentures but not the permanent loss of their freedom. For this reason, historians consider John Punch the "first official slave in the English colonies," and his case as the "ﬁrst legal sanctioning of lifelong slavery in the Chesapeake." Historians also consider this to be one of the first legal distinctions between Europeans and Africans made in the colony, and a key milestone in the development of the institution of slavery in the United States.
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Scotts Island Scotts Island is a bar island on the Kanawha River between the towns of Belle and Chesapeake in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
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The Slave (1917 comedy film) The Slave is a 1917 American silent comedy film starring Billy West and featuring Oliver Hardy. It was unusual for a silent film in that, because it told its story so plainly, subtitles or intertitles were not considered necessary. It is not known whether the film currently survives.
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Theodore Parker Theodore Parker (August 24, 1810 – May 10, 1860) was an American Transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church. A reformer and abolitionist, his words and popular quotations would later inspire speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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John Caskie John Samuels Caskie (November 8, 1821 – December 16, 1869) was a nineteenth-century congressman, lawyer and judge from Virginia.
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John Dawson (U.S. politician) John Dawson (1762 – March 31, 1814) was an 18th-century and 19th-century politician and lawyer from Virginia.
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Severn E. Parker Severn Eyre Parker (July 19, 1787 – October 21, 1836) was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Virginia, United States.
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James Augustus Parker James Augustus Parker (1820 – 7 January 1899) was a miner, mill proprietor, and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
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Eliza Winston Eliza Winston (1830–?) was an American slave who was emancipated from her owners while with them on vacation in a free state.