Maryland tobacco slave, sold south to a cotton plantation, rented out as a sailor, fought with Barney's flotille in the Chesapeake Bay and at the Battle of Bladensburg ... and more. As a fugituve slave he wrote Slavery in the United States which we are reading in our history of American capitalism MOOC.
Join us on Sunday, the 6th, at 12:30 to discuss American slavery as well as Napolean and Haiti, the Baring Brothers, the New England textile mills, wage labor, and the importance of cotton to both North and South.