Nearer My Freedom by Monica Edinger & Lesley Younge

Author:Monica Edinger & Lesley Younge
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Olaudah Equiano, Gustavus Vassa, Poetry, History, American History, Black History, Slavery, Enslavement, Enslavers, Chattel Slavery, Colonization, Abolition, Abolitionists, Abolition Movement, Liberation, Freedom, Manumission, Emancipation, Racism, Travel, Boat, Ship, Sailing, Atlantic Slave Trade, Transatlantic Slave Trade, Middle Passage, Slave Trade, Rebellion, Slave Rebellion, Autobiography, Biography, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Plantation, Merchants, Seven Years' War, Siege of Louisbourg, Sailors, Apprenticeship, Military Ship, Slave Auctions, Caribbean Colonies, Slave Ships, Family Separation, British Parliament, Press Gangs, Impressment, Slave Fortress, England, France, United States, Sierra Leone, West Indies, Caribbean, Spain, West Africa, Musquito Shore, North Pole, London, Bermuda, Barbados, Essaka, Guinea, Benin, Turkey, Portugal, Mediterranean, Jamaica, Virginia, Georgia, Philadelphia, Montserrat, Sugar, Cotton, Castor Oil, Crop, Christianization, Granville Sharp, Captain Doran, Captain Phillips, James Doran, Michael Henry Pascal, Susannah Cullen, John Mondle, Daniel Queen, Robert King, Namur, Indian Queen, Captain Thomas Farmer, Dr. Charles Irving, Charles Irving, Captain David Watt, David Watt, John Hughes, John Baker, William Kirkpatrick, Aetna, Quakerism, Christianity, Nonfiction, Young Adult Nonfiction, Young Adult
ISBN: 9781728486086
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Published: 2023-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

73.

The Register congratulated me

and told me he would draw up

my manumission for half price.

I thanked him for his kindness, and paid him.

I hastened to my master to get him to sign it,

that I might be fully released.

He signed the manumission that day.

Before night, I

who had been a slave in the morning—

trembling at the will of another—

had become my own master,

completely free.

I thought this

was the happiest day

I had ever experienced.

74.

As my manumission

expresses the absolute power and dominion

one man claims over his fellow,

I shall present it at full length:

Montserrat.—To all men unto whom these presents shall come: I Robert King, of the parish of St. Anthony in the said island, merchant, send greeting: Know ye, that I the aforesaid Robert King, for and in consideration of the sum of seventy pounds current money of the said island, to me in hand paid, and to the intent that a negro man-slave, named Gustavus Vassa, shall and may become free, have manumitted, emancipated, enfranchised, and set free, and by these presents do manumit, emancipate, enfranchise, and set free, the aforesaid negro man-slave, named Gustavus Vassa, for ever, hereby giving, granting, and releasing unto him, the said Gustavus Vassa, all right, title, dominion, sovereignty, and property, which, as lord and master over the aforesaid Gustavus Vassa, I had, or now I have, or by any means whatsever I may or can hereafter possibly have over him the aforesaid negro, for ever. In witness whereof I the above-said Robert King have unto these presents set my hand and seal, this tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-six.

ROBERT KING.

Signed, sealed, and delivered in the presence of Terrylegay, Montserrat. Registered the within manumission at full length, this eleventh day of July, 1766, in liber D.

TERRYLEGAY, Register.

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