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James M. Trotter, J. C. Corbin, G. W. Dupee, Allen Allensworth, 1887. Prominent African-Americans. James Monroe Trotter, teacher, soldier, employee of the US Post Office Department, music historian, and Recorder of Deeds in Washington, D.C. Joseph Carter Corbin, journalist and educator, conductor on the Underground Railroad. George Washington Dupee, born into slavery, became a Baptist leader and preacher. Allen Allensworth, also born into slavery, escaped during the American Civil War and joined the 44th Illinois Volunteers as a Union soldier. He was later an army chaplain to a unit of Buffalo Soldiers, and was the first African American to reach the rank of lieutenant colonel. From "Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising" by William J. Simmons.