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A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten

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Winch has written the first full-length biography of James Forten, a hero of African American history and one of the vital remarkable men in 19th-century The us.

Born into a free black circle of relatives in 1766, Forten served within the Revolutionary War as a youngster. By 1810 he had earned the distinction of being the leading sailmaker in Philadelphia. Soon after Forten emerged as a leader in Philadelphia’s black community and used to be active in a variety of reform activities. Especially prominent in national and international antislavery movements, he served as vice-president of the American Anti-Slavery Society and turned into close friends with William Lloyd Garrison to whom he lent money to begin up the Liberator. His circle of relatives were all active abolitionists and a granddaughter, Charlotte Forten, published a famous diary of her experiences teaching ex-slaves in South Carolina’s Sea Islands throughout the Civil War.

This is the first serious biography of Forten, who stands beside Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Martin Luther King, Jr., within the pantheon of African Americans who fundamentally shaped American history.

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