History of the United States I / Unit 6 USH1 0780 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Boston King
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The idea
Boston King, born enslaved near Charleston, escaped and joined the Loyalists, and went afterwards to Nova Scotia and then Sierra Leone.
In practice
His seventeen ninety-two memoir recording a rumour at New York that two thousand enslaved people were to be delivered to their masters.
Where people slip
He wrote that the dreadful rumour filled them with inexpressible anguish and terror, until a proclamation confirmed their freedom.
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