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Richard Pierpoint was an African slave.He was born in 1744 in Bondu, Senegambia, West Africa, a river-laced land of steaming marshes and grassy plains.
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Land was plentiful but labrourers were not. So war and slavery were bitter facts of life.Tribe raided tribe, carried off the human spoils and them to work planting crops or trending cattle.
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The American colonies in 1760 were, in many ways, worse. There were thousands and thousands of captured Africans labouring on plantations or serving in households.
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When he was the age of the average grade 11 student he was captured in one of those conflicts. Hands bound behind his back, roped by the neck to other men.
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After Pierpoint was captured he got arrested.
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A year after the war ended, he left the army, a seasoned veteran of thirty-six, and disappeared from the pages of history agqain for four years.
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In 1788 he was granted, as a veteram, a 200-acre parcel of land on Twelve Mile Creek, near present-day St. Catharines, Ontario
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Zack created a project on Richard pierpoint, a former African slave.Zack shows great deal of important informationabout the history of slavery in the west.
