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Pompey Fleet
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Sunday, April 13, 2014
The Craft of Caesar Fleet
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Yesterday I described the travels of Pompey Fleet , a printer born into slavery in Boston around 1746 who ended up in west Africa by th...
Saturday, April 12, 2014
The Travels of Pompey Fleet
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After the Boston printer Thomas Fleet died, his 1759 estate inventory didn’t include his slave Peter , suggesting that that woodcut carve...
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Friday, April 11, 2014
The Art of Peter Fleet
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Finally I’m getting back to the family of enslaved printers in pre-Revolutionary Boston, Peter Fleet and his sons Pompey and Caesar . ...
Friday, April 04, 2014
The Other Fleet Brothers: “brought up to work at press and case”
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Last week I spoke to the Freedom Trail Foundation guides as they were preparing for a new season leading people around Boston. I talked...
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