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Zusatztext "The definitive biography of James Forten, his family, and his community. Julie Winch's impressive mastery of the historical sources allows her to paint an intimate and textured portrait, richly illuminating the political, social, and economic life of America's first generations. This impressive story of a distinguished African American will inform the scholarly debate on race and society in early America for years to come."--James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, co-authors of In Hope of Liberty and Hard Road to Freedom Informationen zum Autor Julie Winch is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. She is the author of three books on African American history. Klappentext A Gentleman of Color is the first adult biography of James Forten (1766-1842), a free black who was a veteran of the Revolutionary War, Philadelphia sailmaker, prominent businessman, famous abolitionist, and patriarch of one of the most important African-American families in the nineteenth century. This book restores Forten to the pantheon of African-Americans who fundamentally shaped American history, alongside Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Harriet Tubman and Martin Luther King. Zusammenfassung Born into a free black family in 1766, James Forten served in the Revolutionary War and later went on to become vice-president of the American Anti-Slavery Society and more, taking his place as one of the African Americans who helped to shape America.
