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- Title
The Strange Career of Benjamin Franklin Prentiss, Antislavery Lawyer.
- Authors
WINTER, KARI J.
- Abstract
A nineteenth-century genealogist alleged that Prentiss, the young St. Albans amanuensis of Jeffrey Brace's 1810 memoir, The Blind African Slave, practiced law in Richmond, Virginia, and ran a plantation in Wheeling, West Virginia. Although this curious story may have emerged from a confusion of two generations of the same name, the verifiable traces of Benjamin Franklin Prentiss's life offer a haunting glimpse into the tragedies and possibilities of 1810s Vermont
- Subjects
SAINT Albans (Vt.); UNITED States; VERMONT; PRENTISS, Benjamin Franklin; LAWYERS; SLAVERY; BLIND African Slave, The (Book); BIOGRAPHY (Literary form)
- Publication
Vermont History, 2011, Vol 79, Issue 2, p121
- ISSN
0042-4161
- Publication type
Biography