Peter Meyler, David Meyler - A Stolen Life: Searching for Richard Pierpoint

• Peter Meyler, David Meyler - A Stolen Life: Searching for Richard Pierpoint
• Publisher: Natural Heritage Books Toronto | 1999 | ISBN: 1896219551 | PDF | 144 pages | 10.40 MB
• Richard Pierpoint or Captain Dick, as he was commonly known, emerges from the shadows of history in A Stolen Life: Searching for Richard Pierpoint. The book begins in west Africa and his capture at age 16. It is believed he was purchased by the Pierpoint family of Connecticut, but escaped during the American Revolution to take up arms with Butler's Rangers, a British military force based at Fort Niagara. Following the Treaty of Paris in 1783, Pierpoint settled in Niagara. With the American invasion of the Canadas in 1812, Pierpoint once again took up arms in defence of his country. This well-researched and highly readable chronicle of Richard Pierpoint's life in Africa and North America?as a slave, a soldier, and as a pioneer in Upper Canada's wilderness?is an important contribution to African-American history.
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