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 77
... forced to stay there . This inactivity on the river front did not harm the sail- making business . Ships that could not leave port took the op- portunity to have new sails made and old ones repaired . At times James wished that business ...
... forced to stay there . This inactivity on the river front did not harm the sail- making business . Ships that could not leave port took the op- portunity to have new sails made and old ones repaired . At times James wished that business ...
Page 125
... forced to leave his native land . The 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 to ...
... forced to leave his native land . The 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 to ...
Page 152
... forced to work at the age of nine , could rouse the nation from its apathy toward the Negro , where calmer spirits had failed . Perhaps the strident voice , the militancy of William Lloyd Garrison were what the United States needed . 14 ...
... forced to work at the age of nine , could rouse the nation from its apathy toward the Negro , where calmer spirits had failed . Perhaps the strident voice , the militancy of William Lloyd Garrison were what the United States needed . 14 ...
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