A Gentleman of Color
Subtitle: The Life of James Forten
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: April 8, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780195163407
First sentence: WHEN JAMES FORTEN was born on September 2, 1766, in his family's modest home on Third near Walnut in the section of Philadelphia known as Dock Ward, probably no one outside his immediate family bothered to take note of the event.