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A Century in Captivity: The Life and Trials of Prince Mortimer, a Connecticut Slave (Revisiting New England)

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On December 21, 1811, a Middletown, Connecticut pass judgement on sentenced Prince Mortimer, a sickly eighty-seven-year-old slave, to life imprisonment for making an attempt to poison his master by lacing his chocolate drink with arsenic. Prince spent the next sixteen years in Connecticut’s notorious Newgate Prison, a colonial copper mine that had been converted into The us’s first state prison. In 1827 the dungeons at Newgate were closed endlessly, and the prisoners were transferred to the newly constructed Wethersfield State Prison. Wethersfield used to be supposed to be brand new and progressive, but prisoners suffered there each and every bit as much as at Newgate. In 1834, Prince died there in his 31/2-by-7-foot cell, reportedly at the age of 110. From his capture into slavery as a child in Guinea in about 1730, through his more than eighty years as a slave and twenty-three years as a prisoner, Prince had endured more than a century in captivity.

In an astounding feat of historical inquiry and scholarship, creator Denis R. Caron has assembled a mass of facts and insights which will mesmerize general interest readers and students of African American, regional, legal, and penal history alike. A Century in Captivity is a marvelous and sobering story up to now lost to history, filled with dashed dreams of freedom, unrelenting miseries, and struggles for wealth and power.

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