The strange career of Benjamin Franklin Prentiss, antislavery lawyer

The strange career of Benjamin Franklin Prentiss, antislavery lawyer

Winter, Kari J.

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.

Vermont History, v. 79, no. 2 (Summer/Fall 2011)

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