Beneath Independence Mall, story of early free black America (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

2 July 2008, 10:34 pm

Robert Venable most likely came to Philadelphia a slave, shipped from Barbados as a little boy and ultimately bought and used by merchant Hugh Donaldson in the late 1740s.... read more

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