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 117
... Society . News of the formation of the American Colonization So- ciety bewildered and shocked James Forten . For years - since 1807 in fact — he had been proud to know that a Negro , Paul Cuffe ... Colonization Society - The Great Debate 117.
... Society . News of the formation of the American Colonization So- ciety bewildered and shocked James Forten . For years - since 1807 in fact — he had been proud to know that a Negro , Paul Cuffe ... Colonization Society - The Great Debate 117.
Page 125
... Colonization Society did , of course , state that the African colony was to be for American Negroes who would go there with their own consent . Yet James Forten knew enough about human nature ... Colonization Society - The Great Debate 125.
... Colonization Society did , of course , state that the African colony was to be for American Negroes who would go there with their own consent . Yet James Forten knew enough about human nature ... Colonization Society - The Great Debate 125.
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... Colonization Society was established as a branch of the Amer- ican Colonization Society . Its leaders came to Forten and offered him one of the highest posts in the government of the proposed colony . " You will , " they said , " become ...
... Colonization Society was established as a branch of the Amer- ican Colonization Society . Its leaders came to Forten and offered him one of the highest posts in the government of the proposed colony . " You will , " they said , " become ...
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