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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... fire . A charge of grapeshot sprayed into one of the privateer's port- holes , wounding two men who fell , groaning , to the floor . James , rushing to help them , felt the ship swing sharply ; Captain Decatur was maneuvering the Royal ...
... fire . A charge of grapeshot sprayed into one of the privateer's port- holes , wounding two men who fell , groaning , to the floor . James , rushing to help them , felt the ship swing sharply ; Captain Decatur was maneuvering the Royal ...
Page 151
... fire , to give a moderate alarm ... tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen -but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present . I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will ...
... fire , to give a moderate alarm ... tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen -but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present . I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will ...
Page 193
... fires flamed on the sides of the great room . To make the fire blaze hotter , the ruffians had broken the gas pipes on the wall . The dangerous leaking gas fumes and the leaping flames forced the police to withdraw . They barely got out ...
... fires flamed on the sides of the great room . To make the fire blaze hotter , the ruffians had broken the gas pipes on the wall . The dangerous leaking gas fumes and the leaping flames forced the police to withdraw . They barely got out ...
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