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 91
... voices . The vote was quickly taken . Eighty - five congressmen voted " yea " -that such petitions do " create disquiet and ... voice of the free Negroes , crying out for justice , and to be treated as men . The Philadelphia Negroes soon ...
... voices . The vote was quickly taken . Eighty - five congressmen voted " yea " -that such petitions do " create disquiet and ... voice of the free Negroes , crying out for justice , and to be treated as men . The Philadelphia Negroes soon ...
Page 160
... voice may be heard , he told his friends , there are times when the voices of the mean and violent outshout those of reason and humanity . In Forten's opinion , one voice crying out in powerful and convincing tones for justice to the ...
... voice may be heard , he told his friends , there are times when the voices of the mean and violent outshout those of reason and humanity . In Forten's opinion , one voice crying out in powerful and convincing tones for justice to the ...
Page 175
... voice shook slightly as he read aloud , “ To all whom it may concern - to permit safely and freely to pass , Robert Purvis and wife , citi- zens of the United States , and in case of need , to give them all lawful aid and protection ...
... voice shook slightly as he read aloud , “ To all whom it may concern - to permit safely and freely to pass , Robert Purvis and wife , citi- zens of the United States , and in case of need , to give them all lawful aid and protection ...
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