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- Aaron Alpeoria Bradley (c. 1815—1881) was born into slavery, escaped, and became a lawyer in Massachusetts. After the American Civil War he moved to Georgia. He was denied admittance to the Georgia Bar, but became a political activist and worked as a lawyer from South Carolina during the Reconstruction Era. In 1865 he was arrested for his political activism. He was elected as a representative to Georgia's Constitutional Convention of 1867. He was a critic of segregation, police brutality, and capitalism. He advocated for equal rights. He spoke out against "bankers, millionaires, merchants, aristocratic mulattoes, [and] copperheaded Yankees". Bradley never divulged his age but speculation suggests he was born around 1815. He was born on a large plantation in South Carolina and was of mixed ethnicity. He escaped to Boston in the 1830s, became one of the first black lawyers in the U.S., and was among the very few African Americans admitted to the bar before the Civil War. Others include Robert Morris (lawyer) in Massachusetts, 1847; George Boyer Vashon in New York, 1848; and John Mercer Langston in Ohio, 1854. A skilled attorney, Bradley also operated a shoe store in Augusta, Georgia, for a short time. (en)
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- Aaron Alpeoria Bradley (c. 1815—1881) was born into slavery, escaped, and became a lawyer in Massachusetts. After the American Civil War he moved to Georgia. He was denied admittance to the Georgia Bar, but became a political activist and worked as a lawyer from South Carolina during the Reconstruction Era. In 1865 he was arrested for his political activism. A skilled attorney, Bradley also operated a shoe store in Augusta, Georgia, for a short time. (en)
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