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Boston King - CAR1

Title: Boston King - CAR1
Identifier: CAR1
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Carpenters
Source: Boston King, “Memoirs of the Life of Boston King, A Black Preacher,” The Methodist Magazine 21 (March 1798), 106–10, and 21 (April 1798), 15.
Date: 1760 - 1802
Trade: Carpenter
Gender: Male
Enslaver: Richard Waring
Events: 1. Self-emancipated from Richard Waring
2. Gained his freedom after fleeing to British lines during the American Revolution
3. Married in 1781 and relocated to New York
4. Moved to Nova Scotia as a British Loyalist
5. Moved to Sierra Leone in 1792
6. Wrote a memoir in 1796
Home Location: Charleston, South Carolina
Item Type: Memoir
Notes: Boston King's Memoir is available online through George Mason University's History Matters - http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6615/