death_place death_date birth_place profession birth_date article_title name
canada 1837 bundul , senegal slave , farmer 1744 richard pierpoint
 richard pierpoint
richard pierpoint

richard pierpoint -lrb- bundul c. 1744 - canada c. 1837 -rrb- , also known as black dick and captain dick , was born about 1744 in bundu in what is now senegal .
when he was about sixteen he was captured and sold as a slave .
he survived the crossing of the atlantic and was sold to a british officer named pierpoint , probably in one of the northern british colonies .
richard pierpoint would have acted as his personal servant .
