Author: Connie Cole
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781436391030
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 121
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[The author] "has been researching the free black living within the boundaries of Pennsylvania before the Civil War ... Many of the nuclear families in Centre County had migrated from Lancaster County Pennsylvania. These free black families intermarried and settled throughout Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and Canada. These nuclear families brought to light Samuel Fraunces [who] lived in Philadelphia [and] was steward for the Washington's household in Philadelphia ... Fraunces' family like all of these families has been enumerated in census records as white, black, Negro Caucasian, and Mulatto. There are those who would erase Fraunces' African origins in his biography because he seems to have "passed for white". Not all of Samuel Fraunces' children, grandchildren or continuing descendants passed for white. Many of the descendants do not want Samuel's African origins erased from his biography. While future generations may be able to sort things out even further with DNA testing of allied lines there is a need to mark what records are available."--Page 4 of cover.
Author: Rosemary J. Palermo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997161809
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Perfect for sites featuring George Washington. This is a true story about a successful mixed-race entrepreneur who spent years living undercover as a spy. He prevented Washington's assassination twice, changing the course of the War. He provided food and money to help many prisoners of war escape.
Author: Rosemary J. Palermo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997161823
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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What would you do?A civil war is raging all around you. Your choice means losing friends, your business - and probably your life.This is a book about those hard choices and the people who made them. How did Samuel Fraunces save George Washington's life - twice? Why did Sam live a secret life as a spy in enemy occupied New York City? Was Sam black or white? New genealogical information solves that mysterySamuel Fraunces was an ordinary man who did extraordinary things, not in the heat of the moment, but under threat of death for years. His courage saved the American Revolution several times.
Author: Rosemary J. Palermo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997161830
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Biography of a mixed race who became a well known tavern owner in New York City. He volunteered to spy for the Patriots in the American Revolution and lived as a spy in occupied New York, for 5 years, passing information to Washington. He fed and clothed American prisoners of war and helped several escape. He saved Washington's life twice, saving the Revolution at critical points. Washington gave his farewell speech at Fraunces' Tavern and later hired Samuel Fraunces as the first Steward of an American Presidential House. His life story reads like a novel.
Author: Maurine Courseault
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Samuel Fraunces was an American restaurateur and the owner/operator of Fraunces Tavern in New York City. During the Revolutionary War, he provided for prisoners held during the seven-year British occupation of New York City and claimed to have been a spy for the American side. What would you do if there was suddenly a civil war raging around you, where your family and friends took different sides? If it meant losing your clients and friends would you speak up or stay silent. Would you find a safe place to go with your family or would you risk your freedom and your life to spy? This is a well-researched biography about hard choices and the people who made them. How did Sam save Washington from assassination twice? Why did Sam live a secret life as a spy for years? New information solves the mystery - was Sam black? Samuel was a mixed-race man who had excelled despite tremendous racism and prejudice. He was an ordinary man who did extraordinary things, not in the heat of a moment, but under threat of death or being sold into slavery for years. His courageous acts saved the American Revolution at several pivotal times even though Blacks were not welcomed into the colonial cause.
Author: James Lincoln Collier
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
ISBN: 162064200X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 139
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Young Daniel Arabus and his mother are slaves in the house of Captain Ivers of Stratford, Connecticut. By law they should be free, since Daniel’s father fought in the Revolutionary army and earned enough in soldiers’ notes to buy his family’s freedom. But now Daniel’s father is dead, and Mrs. Ivers has taken the notes from his mother. When Daniel bravely steals the notes back, a furious Captain Ivers forces him aboard a ship bound for the West Indies—and certain slavery. Even if Daniel can manage to jump ship in New York, will he be able to travel the long and dangerous road to freedom? The second book in the Arabus family saga finds young Daniel trying to retrieve the notes that ensure his and his mother’s freedom, until he is forced aboard a boat and headed for certain slavery in the West Indies.
Author: Charles L. Blockson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983668763
Category : African American household employees
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The President's House revisited behind the scences: the Samuel Fraunces Story, explores the life of Samuel Fraunces, who was chief steward of George Washington's Presidential Mansion in Philadelphia and New York City. Blockson investigates Fraunces in the context of the lives of enslaved Africans in Philaelphia, as well as the controversy surrounding the new Liberty Pavilion. Blockson provides timelines, which denote Fraunces's birth in Jamaica, his life in New York City, and his stewardship to George Washington. Also included are anecdotes about Fraunces, such as his involvement in stopping an assassination attempt on George Washington's life. The cover of the the book is a portrait of "Black Sam," as Fraunces was known, in red, colonial garb.
Author: Judith Berry Griffin
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780613861854
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Phoebe, daughter of a free black man, goes undercover to discover and foil a would-be assassin of General Washington. Based on historical fact.
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375065345
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.
Author: New York (State). Legislature. Senate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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