George Levi Knox (September 16, 1841 – August 24, 1927)[1] was an American escaped slave, soldier, activist, publisher, and author in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Knox escaped and joined the Union where he accompanied the 55th Indiana Infantry Regiment.

As a slave, Knox was taken by his master to the front lines to serve the Confederate States of America.

[9] He owned an amateur Negro baseball team which was called Indianapolis's Barber Base Ball Club (B.B.C.).

[3] Knox purchased The Indianapolis Freeman, an African-American newspaper (or race paper), and was the publisher from 1893 to 1926.

It was first published in book form in 1979 by University Press of Kentucky under the title Slave and Freeman, the Autobiography of George L. Knox, with an introduction by Willard B.