Forten, the Sailmaker; Pioneer Champion of Negro RightsRand McNally, 1968 - 208 pages A biography of James Forten, a free Negro born in 1766 and owner of the leading sailmaking shop in Philadelphia, who spent his life and fortune furthering abolition. |
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Page 74
... African Society , an organization of free Negroes founded by Jones and Allen to help members in time of sickness , unemployment , or other hardship . The African Society had grown out of the shocking affair at St. George's Methodist ...
... African Society , an organization of free Negroes founded by Jones and Allen to help members in time of sickness , unemployment , or other hardship . The African Society had grown out of the shocking affair at St. George's Methodist ...
Page 112
... Africa and observed its suitability as a new homeland for American Negroes who wished to settle there . He had made friends of the Africans and of the African chiefs . From these he had won assurance that they would welcome and sell ...
... Africa and observed its suitability as a new homeland for American Negroes who wished to settle there . He had made friends of the Africans and of the African chiefs . From these he had won assurance that they would welcome and sell ...
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... African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas , 74-77 , 178 , 183 , 197 Episcopal African Methodist Church , see Bethel African Presbyterian Church , 97 Alcott , Louisa May , 163 Alfred , 22-23 Allen , Richard , 97 , 141 ; and yellow fever ...
... African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas , 74-77 , 178 , 183 , 197 Episcopal African Methodist Church , see Bethel African Presbyterian Church , 97 Alcott , Louisa May , 163 Alfred , 22-23 Allen , Richard , 97 , 141 ; and yellow fever ...
Contents
Letters by a Man of Color | 9 |
Black Pioneers | 10 |
The American Colonization SocietyThe Great Debate | 11 |
Copyright | |
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aboard abolitionists Absalom Jones African American Colonization Society American Negroes Amphyon Anthony Benezet Anti-Slavery asked Beasly Benezet boat Boston British brought Captain Decatur cargo Charlotte Church citizens Colonizationists color Congress crew crowded Cuffe's deck declared Delaware delegates delphia Devany enemy England eyes feel felt fight fire Forten the sailmaker free Negroes freedom Freedom's Journal gathered Granville Sharp guns heard hope House human James Forten James's Jersey knew land Liberator Liberia lived looked marbles meeting morning nation never night pamphlet paper Paul Cuffe Pennsylvania Hall Perhaps persons petition Phila Philadelphia Negroes prison ship Quaker Reverend Richard Allen Robert Bridges Robert Purvis Royal Louis sail loft seamen sent Sierra Leone slaveholders slavery soon streets Thomas thought thousand tion told United vessel voice vote wharves white friends Whittier William Lloyd Garrison wrote young Forten