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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... returned . They usually did not know that after these ships had unloaded their British cargo at various ports , they then anchored on the West Coast of Africa . Here the ship's crew crammed the hold with shackled African vic- tims whom ...
... returned . They usually did not know that after these ships had unloaded their British cargo at various ports , they then anchored on the West Coast of Africa . Here the ship's crew crammed the hold with shackled African vic- tims whom ...
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... returned to America is not known . But the fall of 1786 found him back in Philadelphia in a sail loft on Willing's Wharf , signing the papers that made him an apprentice to Robert Bridges , sail- maker . 6 The Black Sea Captain from ...
... returned to America is not known . But the fall of 1786 found him back in Philadelphia in a sail loft on Willing's Wharf , signing the papers that made him an apprentice to Robert Bridges , sail- maker . 6 The Black Sea Captain from ...
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... at least a surface calm returned to the fright- ened city . Shocked and alarmed by the race riots , city officials made investigations and appointed committees to try to prevent their reoccurrence Caught in the Cross Fire 159.
... at least a surface calm returned to the fright- ened city . Shocked and alarmed by the race riots , city officials made investigations and appointed committees to try to prevent their reoccurrence Caught in the Cross Fire 159.
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