Category: Biographies

Right on the Scaffold, or The Martyrs of 1822 The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 7

He was black but comely. Nature gave him a royal body, nobly planned and proportioned, and noted for its great strength. There was that in his countenance, which bespoke a mind within to match that body, a mind of uncommon native intelligence, force of will, and capacity to do...