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James William Charles Pennington (c. 1807 – October 22, 1870) was an American historian, abolitionist, orator, minister, writer, and social organizer. Pennington is the first known Black student to attend Yale University.
4 de feb. de 2021 · In 1827 James Pembroke, an enslaved man of African descent who would eventually take the name James William Charles (WC) Pennington, managed to escape from bondage in Maryland to freedom in the North. According to his narrative, he experienced an early childhood of parental separation.
Internationally Recognized Activist, Reverend, Writer, and Abolitionist. Rev. James W.C. Pennington was born in 1807. He was born a slave in Maryland to Tighlin Frisby after Frisby’s father passed away. He and his siblings and mother lived on one plantation and his father, Basil, on another.
He was a Black educator, clergyman, orator, author, and abolitionist. James William Charles Pennington was born a slave on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, and he, his mother, and brothers were sold when he was four. He ran away from a harsh slave life to a Quaker family in Pennsylvania.
James William Charles Pennington was a well-regarded reverend and abolitionist. His youth was marked by slavery’s brutality and perseverance to rise above it. Rev. Pennington was born a slave and died a freed man.
James W.C. Pennington (1808-1870) was born in slavery in Maryland and although he was trained as a carpenter and blacksmith he was not taught to read or write. At the age of nineteen he escaped from slavery in an eight-day ordeal during which he was twice captured and twice escaped.
8 de mar. de 2007 · Born into slavery on the eastern shore of Maryland in 1807, James William Charles Pennington escaped from slavery in 1828 and settled for a time in Long Island, where he studied in night school. Devoted to black education, he became an antislavery preacher, teacher, activist, and writer.
