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 85
... human beings . This greed knew no limits . As soon as Congress passed the first Fugitive Slave Act , in 1793 , greedy men , from the North as well as the South , watched for any Negro who might be an escaped slave and so could be ...
... human beings . This greed knew no limits . As soon as Congress passed the first Fugitive Slave Act , in 1793 , greedy men , from the North as well as the South , watched for any Negro who might be an escaped slave and so could be ...
Page 92
... human race as those who [ use our ignorance as an argument against our petition ] .... While some , sir , consider us as much property as a house or a ship , and would seem to insinuate that it is as lawful to hew down the one as it is ...
... human race as those who [ use our ignorance as an argument against our petition ] .... While some , sir , consider us as much property as a house or a ship , and would seem to insinuate that it is as lawful to hew down the one as it is ...
Page 125
... human nature to fear that once such a colony existed , the temptation to send all free Negroes there would be tremendous . In the North as well as in the South , the power of the slaveholding interests was great . In Congress they ...
... human nature to fear that once such a colony existed , the temptation to send all free Negroes there would be tremendous . In the North as well as in the South , the power of the slaveholding interests was great . In Congress they ...
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