I, Charlotte Forten, Black and Free (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Polly Longsworth
- First Published: 1970
- Time of Work: 1854–1864
- Setting: Philadelphia; Salem, Massachusetts; Boston; and Port Royal, South Carolina
- Principal Characters: Charlotte Forten, James Forten, Charles Redmond, William Wells Brown, Mary Shepard, William Still, Edward L. Pierce, General Saxton, Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Robert Gould Shaw
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: African Americans, Teaching or teachers, Freedom, Abolitionists, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, Education or educators, Civil War, Biography
- Locales: Boston, MA, Philadelphia, PA, South Carolina, Salem, MA
Form and Content
Based on Charlotte L. Forten’s Journal, edited by Ray Allen Billington and published in 1953, Polly Longsworth’s biography I, Charlotte Forten, Black and Free is more than a retelling of Forten’s life, or of a portion of that life. It is also a history of free African Americans’ involvement—with help and support from white sympathizers—in the abolitionist movement. The book includes a description of how affluent free African Americans lived in Philadelphia and Salem. From narratives of fugitive slaves and from letters, diaries, and...
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