Lear Green
Lear Green (circa 1839-1860) was an enslaved African American woman in Baltimore, Maryland, who had herself shipped in a chest to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to escape slavery.
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Clarissa Davis
Clarissa Davis (later known as Mary D. Armstead) dressed as a man to evade slave-catchers and others, and traveled in a chest aboard a ship from Virginia to Pennsylvania to win her freedom.
Cleopatra Selene II
Cleopatra Selene II (40 – c. 5 BCE) was a member of the Ptolemaic Dynasty who became the queen of Mauretania upon her marriage to King Juba II of Numidia (48 BCE – 23 CE).
Berenice IV
Queen of Ptolemaic Egypt who ruled briefly after her father Ptolemy XII was overthrown by a popular rebellion. Berenike IV’s reign ended in 55 BCE when her father reconquered Egypt with a mercenary Roman army and ordered her execution.
Amenirdis I
Amenirdis I (714-700 BCE) controlled Thebes through her position as God’s Wife of Amun and effectively ruled Upper Egypt.
Jane Johnson
Enslaved woman whose escape to freedom led to precedent-setting legal cases
Heterpheres I
4th Dynasty Egyptian queen
Merit-Ptah
Merit-Ptah is not only the first female doctor known by name but the first woman mentioned in the study of science.
Nefertari
In the 19th Dynasty, Nefertari (c. 1255 BCE) was the queen of Ramesses II (1279-1213 BCE) and was equally influential during his administration.
Amanikhatashan
First century CE queen of Meroe