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 57
... persons who pretended to have any claim on the person of Jonathan Strong to be summoned before his Lordship . " Kerr's lawyer and the West Indian captain who was to take the slave to Jamaica produced Lisle's bill of sale and claimed him ...
... persons who pretended to have any claim on the person of Jonathan Strong to be summoned before his Lordship . " Kerr's lawyer and the West Indian captain who was to take the slave to Jamaica produced Lisle's bill of sale and claimed him ...
Page 174
... person , might be naturalized and admitted to the rights of an American citi- zen . " Afterwards Congress repeatedly ... persons of color . " And in Forten's own state of Pennsylvania , legally at least , Negroes could vote . This was ...
... person , might be naturalized and admitted to the rights of an American citi- zen . " Afterwards Congress repeatedly ... persons of color . " And in Forten's own state of Pennsylvania , legally at least , Negroes could vote . This was ...
Page 195
... persons were engaged in tracking them down and returning them to their masters . Most abolitionists were known , and their enemies watched carefully to make sure they harbored no fugitives . If they did , these enemies promptly notified ...
... persons were engaged in tracking them down and returning them to their masters . Most abolitionists were known , and their enemies watched carefully to make sure they harbored no fugitives . If they did , these enemies promptly notified ...
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