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Title
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Boston King - CAR1
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Identifier
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CAR1
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Subject
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African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Carpenters
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Source
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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.
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Date
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1760 - 1802
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Trade
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Carpenter
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Gender
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Male
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Enslaver
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Richard Waring
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Home Location
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Charleston, South Carolina
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Events
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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
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Item Type
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Memoir
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Notes
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Boston King's Memoir is available online through George Mason University's History Matters - http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6615/
