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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Esther Morris Douty. 8 " Seven Hundred Thousand Enemies " In 1800 , the capital of the United States was to be moved ... hundreds of tall ships rocking at the wharves . Most of the ships made regular voyages between Philadelphia and the ...
Esther Morris Douty. 8 " Seven Hundred Thousand Enemies " In 1800 , the capital of the United States was to be moved ... hundreds of tall ships rocking at the wharves . Most of the ships made regular voyages between Philadelphia and the ...
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... hope the House will never intermeddle with the property of any of its citizens . I wish to return the petition to the gentleman who pre- sented it . As Lee sat down , Rutledge , the South Carolinian " Seven Hundred Thousand Enemies " 87.
... hope the House will never intermeddle with the property of any of its citizens . I wish to return the petition to the gentleman who pre- sented it . As Lee sat down , Rutledge , the South Carolinian " Seven Hundred Thousand Enemies " 87.
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... hundred thousand of the human race were concerned in our petition . Their thanks , their gratitude to you they now express . Their prayers for you will mount to Heaven , for God knows they are wretched , and He will hear their ...
... hundred thousand of the human race were concerned in our petition . Their thanks , their gratitude to you they now express . Their prayers for you will mount to Heaven , for God knows they are wretched , and He will hear their ...
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