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 54
... Sharp to his great work in the Somersett case . " Granville Sharp . That name too was familiar to James . He seemed to recall Mr. Benezet happily telling his pupils one morning that he had just received a letter from a great friend of ...
... Sharp to his great work in the Somersett case . " Granville Sharp . That name too was familiar to James . He seemed to recall Mr. Benezet happily telling his pupils one morning that he had just received a letter from a great friend of ...
Page 58
... Sharp persisted , however , and finally in an early edition of the authoritative Blackstone's Com- mentaries , he found an opinion quoted from an old case : " as soon as a Negro comes into England , he becomes free . ” Much encouraged , ...
... Sharp persisted , however , and finally in an early edition of the authoritative Blackstone's Com- mentaries , he found an opinion quoted from an old case : " as soon as a Negro comes into England , he becomes free . ” Much encouraged , ...
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... hearted men who thought as Sharp did . James resolved not to leave London until he had seen Sharp . His opportunity came after he had been in London a Granville Sharp month . Although Sharp was not a Quaker 62 Forten the Sailmaker.
... hearted men who thought as Sharp did . James resolved not to leave London until he had seen Sharp . His opportunity came after he had been in London a Granville Sharp month . Although Sharp was not a Quaker 62 Forten the Sailmaker.
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