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when poppine was born
He was born in Bondu, Senegambia, West Africa, a river-laced land of steaming marshes and grassy plains -
11th grade
He was in a conflict. His hands were bounded behind his back, roped by the neck to other men, women, and children, he marched to the broad Gmbia River and boated downstream to James Fortr, an island fortness near the ocean, and sold to Europeans. -
after 2 months of horror
He survived! He made it to Barbados to become a slave there. He got sent to a slave market on the mainland in Charles' Town. -
Slavery in 1760
there were thousands of captured Africans labouring on plantations or serving in households. They didn't remain in bondage for life, there were white slaves too; indentured servants sold to a master for a period of year; convicts transported to the new world and sold as labourses until they had "paid off" the cost of their passage; sailors "pressed" into duty. -
Pierpine returned
He dropped out of sight for 20 years. after 20 years her retuned. he turned up, of all places, Fort Niagara, just across the river from present-day Niagara-on-the-lake. -
the year war ended
He left the army. A seasoned veteran of 36, and disappeared from the pages of history again for 4 years. -
What he was granted for
He was granted, as a veteran, a 200-arce parcel of land on Twelve Mile Creek, near present-day St.Catharines, Ontario -
A condition of the grant
Lots 13 and 14, Concession 6, became his property. later on his sold them. the reason why he sold them is because turning forest into farms was dangerous, painstaking, back-breaking work -
pawpine was still an outsider
1794 Pawpine and a number of other free Africans petitiones Governor John G. Simcoe. -
African king
Pawpine had fpught the Americans for the king.The king was no longer considered a "loyalist". because he was African. -
Henry Clay
Henry Clay had told the American Congress in February 1810 that "the militia of Kentucky alonme" could take Montreal and Upper Canada both. he was embarrasses when he learned that part of Washington was burned down and that the Redcoats invaded as far as New Orleans. -
Americans got mad
The Americans goy mad at the British again and invadwd Canada, trying to grab more land, as if half a continent wasnt enough. -
The last battle
the Americans won the last battle. Two week after the peace terms had been negotiated and the war ended. -
Governor Maitland
Vouched for by the adjutant general of militia, who praised the service in two wars of "a faithful and deserving old Negro". "Old and without property" he found it extremely hard to obtain a livelihood by my labour. -
He built a cabin.
His cabin was built on the bank of the Grand River.
