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The hanging of Thomas Jeremiah a free Black man's encounter with liberty

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  • "In 1775, Thomas Jeremiah was one of fewer than five hundred "Free Negros" in South Carolina and, with an estimated worth of £1,000 (about $200,000 in today's dollars), possibly the richest person of African descent in British North America. A slaveowner himself, Jeremiah was falsely accused by whites--who resented his success as a Charleston harbor pilot--of sowing insurrection among slaves at the behest of the British. Though a free man, Jeremiah was tried in a slave court and sentenced to death. J. William Harris tells Jeremiah's story in full for the first time, illuminating the contradiction between a nation that would be born in a struggle for freedom and yet deny it to others."

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  • "The hanging of Thomas Jeremiah : a free Black man's encounter with liberty"
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  • "The hanging of Thomas Jeremiah : a free black man's encounter with liberty"