Description:Chapters: Thomas Peters, J. Ernest Wilkins, Sr., Ernest T. Dixon, Jr., Boston King, Willis J. King. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Thomas Peters (or Thomas Potters in the Book of Negroes) was born on June 25 1738. He was one of four black Founding Fathers of Freetown, Sierra Leone. Peters, David George, Moses Wilkinson, Cato Perkins, and Joseph Leonard, were some of the most influential blacks who recruited African Americans in Nova Scotia for the Sierra Leone venture. Peters himself was an African American slave who fled North Carolina with the British during the American Revolutionary War and later ended up as a leader in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Thomas Peters has been referred to as the first African American hero. Peters, like Elijah Johnson and Joseph Jenkins Roberts of Liberia, is considered the African American founding father of a nation. In 1760, a twenty-two year old Thomas Peters was captured by African slave traders and sold as a slave to Colonial America on a French slave ship, the 'Henri Quatre. Upon arrival in America, Peters was sold to a French owner in French Louisiana. Twice Peters tried to escape; legend has it the first time he was whipped severely, the second time he was branded, and the third time he was cuffed in heavy ankle shackles. Eventually Peters's owner sold him to an Englishman or Scotsman in one of the Southern Colonies and it is Campbell, an immigrant Scotsman who had settled on the Cape Fear River in Wilmington, North Carolina. In 1776, Peters fled his owner's flour mill near Wilmington at the start of the American Revolutionary War and joined the Black Pioneers, a Black Loyalist unit made up of runaway African American slaves who had been promised their freedom by the British in exchange for supporting the w...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=835478We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with African American Methodists: Thomas Peters, J. Ernest Wilkins, Sr., Ernest T. Dixon, JR., Boston King, Willis J. King. To get started finding African American Methodists: Thomas Peters, J. Ernest Wilkins, Sr., Ernest T. Dixon, JR., Boston King, Willis J. King, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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30
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Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1157465501
African American Methodists: Thomas Peters, J. Ernest Wilkins, Sr., Ernest T. Dixon, JR., Boston King, Willis J. King
Description: Chapters: Thomas Peters, J. Ernest Wilkins, Sr., Ernest T. Dixon, Jr., Boston King, Willis J. King. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Thomas Peters (or Thomas Potters in the Book of Negroes) was born on June 25 1738. He was one of four black Founding Fathers of Freetown, Sierra Leone. Peters, David George, Moses Wilkinson, Cato Perkins, and Joseph Leonard, were some of the most influential blacks who recruited African Americans in Nova Scotia for the Sierra Leone venture. Peters himself was an African American slave who fled North Carolina with the British during the American Revolutionary War and later ended up as a leader in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Thomas Peters has been referred to as the first African American hero. Peters, like Elijah Johnson and Joseph Jenkins Roberts of Liberia, is considered the African American founding father of a nation. In 1760, a twenty-two year old Thomas Peters was captured by African slave traders and sold as a slave to Colonial America on a French slave ship, the 'Henri Quatre. Upon arrival in America, Peters was sold to a French owner in French Louisiana. Twice Peters tried to escape; legend has it the first time he was whipped severely, the second time he was branded, and the third time he was cuffed in heavy ankle shackles. Eventually Peters's owner sold him to an Englishman or Scotsman in one of the Southern Colonies and it is Campbell, an immigrant Scotsman who had settled on the Cape Fear River in Wilmington, North Carolina. In 1776, Peters fled his owner's flour mill near Wilmington at the start of the American Revolutionary War and joined the Black Pioneers, a Black Loyalist unit made up of runaway African American slaves who had been promised their freedom by the British in exchange for supporting the w...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=835478We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with African American Methodists: Thomas Peters, J. Ernest Wilkins, Sr., Ernest T. Dixon, JR., Boston King, Willis J. King. To get started finding African American Methodists: Thomas Peters, J. Ernest Wilkins, Sr., Ernest T. Dixon, JR., Boston King, Willis J. King, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.