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Author Mountain, Joseph, 1758-1790.

Title Sketches of the life of Joseph Mountain : a Negro, who was executed at New-Haven on the 20th day of October, 1790, for a rape, committed on the 26th day of May last
Edition Electronic ed
Published [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003

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Summary Joseph Mountain born 1758 in Philadelphia, son of a negro slave until she was 21 and a mulatto father, was the house servant of Samuel Mifflin. When he was seventeen, his master granted him permission to sail to London where he met two thieves, Francis Hyde and Thomas Wilson, and soon Mountain was acting as an accomplice to their crimes in and around London, York, and Newmarket. For a short time, Mountain worked as a ship cook, but soon returned to London and met up with a gang of highway robbers. Several years later, he married a young white woman, Nancy Allingame. He left her and, with Hyde and Wilson, resumed his former criminal activities. In 1789, he returned to America where a few days later, he was caught and whipped for stealing five dollars. Shortly after, he was arrested for rape, although Mountain claimed that the crime was assault. While waiting for his execution on October 20, 1790, he dictated this document
Notes Title from electronic title page (viewed Nov. 14, 2003)
This electronic edition has been transcribed from a microfilm supplied by Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection North American slave narratives
Text transcribed by Apex Data Services, Inc. Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc., Matthew Kern and Elizabeth S. Wright
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Transcribed from the microfiche of: Sketches of the life of Joseph Mountain : a Negro, who was executed at New-Haven on the 20th day of October, 1790, for a rape, committed on the 26th day of May last. New Haven : Printed and sold by T. & S. Green, [1790?] 20 p. "Compiled by David Daggett, New Haven, 1790"--Handwritten on page preceeding title page
Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities supported the electronic publication of this title
Subject Mountain, Joseph, 1758-1790.
SUBJECT Mountain, Joseph, 1758-1790 fast (OCoLC)fst00184620
Subject African Americans -- Biography
African American criminals -- Biography
Crime -- Early works to 1800
Rape -- Connecticut -- New Haven
Last words.
African American criminals.
African Americans.
Crime.
Last words.
Rape.
Connecticut -- New Haven.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Early works.
Form Electronic book
Author Daggett, David, 1764-1851.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library.
Other Titles North American slave narratives
North American slave narratives