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A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten
A Gentleman of Color The Life of James Forten
Author: Julie Winch
Winch has written the first full-length biography of James Forten, a hero of African American history and one of the most remarkable men in 19th-century America. Born into a free black family in 1766, Forten served in the Revolutionary War as a teenager. By 1810 he had earned the distinction of being the leading sailmaker in Philadelphia. Soon a...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195163407
ISBN-10: 0195163400
Publication Date: 4/8/2003
Pages: 528
Edition: New Ed
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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